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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14
Women nA DranatiStS.

"Why is it, Mir. Boucicault, that so few women have achieved success as dramatistsF' Because they have not the power of in vention. It is in intellect-as in almost everything else in this world-that the male being is creative. And then the won}an has not the logic of events or the mechanism of construction. She cannot put together slowly piece by piece with one single aim and end in view. Her intellect and nature are discursive and episodic She walks for Q while on a straight road, but is tempted from it by some pretty winding lane, or she dalles too long in some shady nook"
 "Yet in novels women have shown inven- tion, and some of the situations conceived by them have been remarkably effective on the stage"
 Admitted! In narrative form the woman often succeeds because the tendencies have pointed out do not then become or appear as defects. In the very few instances in which a woman has made success as a playwright she has been like Mme. de Girardin or George sand-of 8 masculine temperament. ."-NeT'
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14
EDUCATING THE VOTERS.

The printing press is powerful instru- ment of campaign work this year. It is campaign of issues rather than men, and educational influences are superseding the torch and the tinsel of parade. Political documents are as thick as mosquitoes in Jersey swamp, and the seed that is being sown is more valuable if it is not more pro- life. But in some cases rather extraor- dinary license is being taken with the printing press, for instance when forged clippings purporting to come from English papers are palmed off as genuine. This is being done rather extensively by the re- publicans and the fact that the clippings have been shown to be forgeries doesn't seem to call them down. The alleged quo tations from the London Times and the London Spectator have been proven to be forgeries, but they are sent out just the same by the Home Market club of Boston and other republican auxiliaries.
 This is rather disreputable politics, and it is not going to help the party that re- sorts to it. Mendacity and deceit are poor stuffing for campaign literature.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14

from the breakers Should side issues that have nothing to do with the tariff or national polity, and that have cropped up very thickly in the state, do injury to the national ticket, it might be disastrous to it's chances of success in the country at large. Nothing should be left undone, therefore. to choke off those side issues ere they reach an uncomfortable point. There is work, and work of serious kind, for Chairman Brice to do in Connecticut.
 It is to be hoped that the national com mittee will take counsel from the result in Maine. There is little use in spending the sinews of political energy in states that are hopelessly, solidly republican. All the re sources of campaign work should be directed to those states that went for Cleve- land four years ago but which are rightly considered doubtful. Those states are New York, New Jersey, Indiana and Connecti- cut. It is there the battle must be fought and won. The best speakers that are available should be used in these states and every effort made to keep every one of them in the democratic column. This can be done, but it will not be done by neglect ing them to make useless bluffs in the strong republican states.
 The doubtful states should be attended to; the sure states will look out for them selves
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14
WHERE Is DIRIGO?

There isn't so much Dirigo down in Maine after all Last Tuesday there was grand concerted howl from.1all the republi- can papers in the land over "the glorious victory down in Maine" It was heralded abroad as the morning star that pointed to a completer victory in November. MT Blaine in the fiery exuberance of his un- tanned enthusiasm dubbed it "a political revolution :" But later returns give it the appearance of counting chickens before they are matched.
 Complete returns from all the towns in the state as gathered by the Lewiston Journal make the republican plurality IS, 495. The plurality in September, 1884, when MT Blaine himself was in the field for president, was 19,745. The plurality for Blaine in November, 1884, was 20,06O. It will be seen, therefore, that Mondays plurality showed a republican loss. And this too, ill spite of campaign directed and managed with all the resources of the republican national committee. This is 'the glorious victory" that the republicans nave peeH mapping 'helr "AhSS oNel' " ny, survey of the figures from 1856 shows that the republicans, emitting the year 1879, when the sreenback movement shook up the regular party lines have scored an average plurality of 23,0OO. In view of this Monday s victory is mt such glorious" one as the republican papers would make out. Like the asses they have been snuff ing up the east wind, but as the old darkey said, that's damn poor stuff to get fat on." If the democratic press let loose its screamers over victories in Georgia or Texas it would be just about as sensible as this fap-doodle growing over Maine.
 Dirigo dwindles The morning star is fading
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14

THE postal service during the fiscal year 1888 shows deficiency of about $2 ,000, ,O00, More democratic extravaganza But then there was deficiency of $7,O0O, ,OOO for the last year of republican administration. And then, too, there was a big increase of the railway postal service, an addition of 5000 to the number of postofices, the es- tablishment of parcel post system to for eign countries, and other changes involv- ing large outlays, including an expenditure of $5,OOO,OOO in renewing the equipment of the service. That's the kind of huck. leberry the present administration of the postal service is.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14
A Boy with Two Hearts.

The patient was again anasthetized. An inciSion was made in the neck over the tumor. The cartilagipous cyst was corru- gated slightly and resisted tie knife strongly. The surgeon had to proceed with the greatest caution and be on the lookout for the slight est puncture of the artery. An opening was finally made through the cartilage, and it was extended for about three inches. The hemorrhage was only ordinary.
 Within this hard sac there was a small body covered with a membrane. Dr. Wyeth had never seen anything like it before. To facilitate further cutting, as well as to find out what the body was, a strong light was reflected into the cavity. The surgeon glanced within and turned away in dismay. And well he might, for there ill full view was miniature heart beating with great energy. The venous and arterial systems were perfectly developed, though on a small scale, and as far as could be judged extended through the entire body independent entirely of the heart in the chest. pr. Wyeth did not cut any further, though he would certainly liked to have seen what effect the removal of the auxiliary heart would have had on the patient A photograph was taken of the heart with detective camera before closing the wound.
 In examining tho cartilage it was discov- cred that the irregular formations of its sur face was due to the existence of small ribs, which nature had thrown around the heart for protection. The wound was sewed with silk, and beyond q slight inflammation has not given any trouble. The swelling ill the neck, of course, can never be reduced, but there is nothing to indicate that it will ever prove detrimental to the boys health.-New York Cor. Globe-DemocLat.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14
THE FIELD FOR WORK.

THE FIELD FOR WORK.
 The state elections that have been held this fall indicate one thing pretty clearly and that is that there is not going to be any very radical changing of the lines in the presidential election. Maine and Vermont are republican by nearly their customary majorities; Arkansas and Alabama remain solid in the democratic column. The pro- hibition and labor vote is not going to cut much figure in the campaign, and the fighting ground, in all probability, will be in the doubtful states of New York Indiana New Jersey and Connecticut.
 We believe these states will go dem ocratic, but it should not be taken for granted by the democratic managers. The republicans are hard at work in all these states, and are hopeful of capturing enough of them to elect their ticket Indiana and Connecticut, should they go republ can would elect Harrison and Morton. Indians being Harrison's own state the republicans are especially hopeful of carrying it. And they are feasting their souls with the ex pectation of carrying Connecticut. As tht days go by and the tariff question becomes more generally and more clearly under stood, it becomes evident that, with noth ing else to complicate the issue, Connecti cut would be reasonably sure to go fol Cleveland. But it is unfortunate that ther, is something else to mix things up, and i is going to take powerful lot of prudence and good judgment to steer the party of
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14
SECRET OF MEMORY.
No Royal Road to Strength of Mental
 Powers-Exercise and Practice.

No Royal Road to Strength of Mental
 Powers-Exercise and Practice.
 Superstition knows no bounds. Ever since men began to be civilized there have been theorists who have made a Hv1ng-and some of them very handsome lving-by protesting to impart some wonderful secret which should increase the beauty or prolong the youth or strengthen the memory Of the credulous disciple. All men and some women like to be thought young and beautl- full; and the advantage of being able to say at any moment when Queen Elizabeth died and who stabbed Eglon, king of Moab, is obvious to the meanest capacity. Teachers of memory will always find occupation, but those who think of employing them should think twice. There were distinguished pro fessors of the art in antiquity, Greeks for the most part, onniscient and shifty, and ready, as Juvenal says, to undertake anything, from rope dancing to scaling heaven, for consideration. Metrodorus, it is said by Pliny, could repeat literally anything that he had once heard. Like astrology and divination, mnemonics has just that sufficient air of relation to reality which is sure to mislead the minimizing and the uncritical; and with the revival of learning in the Four teenth and Fifteenth centuries this fantastic science came again into notice It has never quite lapsed into obscurity since that time.
 It is to be hoped that not many readers can recall, as part of their personal experience, the career of M Gouraud, who created an excitement in this country forty years ago with his system of ''phreno- the idea of which was an application of the Arablc numerals. The syllables, SC, te, ne, me, re, le, she, Ike, fe, pc, represented the nine figures and the cipher, and by the combina- tion of these syllables the mind was to lay hold at once on any fact, or date, or passage, and reproduce it without error.
 Part of the charm in all these systems lies in the abracadabra, the unintelligibility of formula which affects the mind of the neophyte with it's cadence, just as the old woman found that it did her good all over to hear that ''sweet word, Mesopotamia" The formula and the readiness to believe ill any thing that promises to do away with the ob- durate law of hard work will account for much; but how does it happen that no one of the thousands who have wasted substance and time on theso hollow deceits has left & record of his experience? That experience has been, by the nature of the case, uniform. No man has ever yet been found who sue ceeded in acquiring strength of memory by any other process than continual practice and effort. Those who seem to improve by following system of mnemonics, improve only because they then first seriously give the memory work to do. The law for this is the same as the law for every power, mental or physical as we'll as for every organ: give | it exercise and practice, and it improves and gathers strength; neglect it, and the organ | or the power dies-Frank Leslie'S
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14

THOSE republicans who are predicting that President Cleveland will not carry a single northern state will revise their pre- diction on the Eth of November. He will carry four-New York, Indiana, New Jer- sey and Connecticut.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14

LEVI P. MORTON has evidently needed the trite injunction of Chairman Quay, "Dont talk" Morton "aint sayiN' q word" only when "the boys pull on his bank account as though it were the treas urv surplus. Then he kicks.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14

HARRISON believes we won't have to make whiskey free because the republicans are equal to the task of spending the surplus It's cold day when the repub- icans can't find schemes to squander the public money. Give them chance at the surplus and it will soon look as though it had stood up four rounds before John l.. Sullivan.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14
MissionarieS in Big Luck.

My friends" shouted frenzied temper ance orator, Boston sent last year to Africa 100000 gallons of rum-accursed rum while the missionaries oa that dark and be- nighted continent can almost be counted on ones fingers"
 "How many-hic-gallons O rumT' hic- coughed an interested listener.
 "One million gallons, sir"
 "Gra-graciousl An only few mission ariesP
 ''Yea, friendI"
 "Gra- -graciousl Missionaries in--hic-big luck. ."-Time.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14

ANOTHER republican English scarecrow has gone to it's roost. The English Iron Era has been quoted as saying that the Golden club is raising money to send here in the interest of Clevelands election. There is no such paper as the Iron Era. But the republicans don't mind little thing like that
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14

THE mugwump papers are publishing homilies on Hills unpopularity. It is good exercise for the papers, and Hill don't mind it. Why should he' The democrats are solid for him.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14

PREMIUMS to bondholders is Harrisons way of getting rid of the surplus. This is what the bondholders would call soft snap. But the people ain't giving the snap away this year.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14

MAYOR HEWITT is going to review the Garibaldi procession in New York next Thursday. Maccaroni evidently agrees with his dyspepsia better than Irish potatoes.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14
For Governor,

For Governor, LUZON B. MORRIS, of New Haven, For Lieutenant Governor, JOHN s. KIRKHAM, of Newington. For Secretary of State, HENRY A. BISHOP, of Bridgeport.
 For Treasurer, J. GRIFFIN MARTIN, of Windham.
 For Comptroller, NICHOLAS STAUB, of New Milford.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14

THE republicans growing over Maine remind us of the boy who looked for hon ey in sour grapes It wash there.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14

HARRIsoN's apology it is called now. very apt name.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14
Qaterh,.rp De,mucrat.

The DEMOCRAT will be delivered to any address for $500 year, $2.50 for six months, SIPS for three months, or 42 cents month payable in advance
 All communications must be signed. Anony- nous letters or news items will be consigned te the waste basket,
 c. .tSM. T. MALONEY. Proprietors.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14

Enteped at the Post Office at Waterbury, Conn.,, second class matter.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14
Democratic Nominations.

Democratic Nominations.
 FOR PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND
 of New York.
 FOR vICE-PREsIDENT, ALLEN G. THURMAN
 of Ohio.
 Electors at Large, A. E. BURR, of Hartford E. B. MANNING, of Meriden.
 District Electors, First-C. H. PENDLEToN, of Hebron. Second-HENRY G. HUBBARD, Middletown LUCAS, Preston. Fourth-GEoRGE NJ. COLE, Bethel
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14
THE RED BANDANA


 We believe in thaa part of Belva's plat form published in the DEMOCRAT referring to education, the lack of which is shown by her grammar. But the demand that every husband buy a Shoninger Piano or Organ for his wife entirely destroys her chances Oh, Belva, would you destroy family ties throughout our land No. The Red Bandana will be used for the next four years in dusting such Fine Pianos as Mason & Hamlin, Boardman X Gray, Baus, and Wilcox & White and New Eng land Organs. A company with business stability is preferred to the hireling of a manufacturer who sells Pianos for new ones and few months later claims they were manufactured long years ago. Call and examine stock.
 J. M. KELLOGG,
 162 South Main St.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14
WANTED

Secondhand Carpets and Furniture. Highest cash prices at the old stand, IIarper's Building so 1-2 so. MAIN ST.
 'ALONZO HARPER
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-09-14

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1888.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-05

and angels to open and shut the win
ddows in it and regulate the rain. Isl
dOre and Bede, and other theologians
defended it; and Mus@us taught
that God first made it and
left 1t hanging, and afterward
put the earth under it. So late as the
middle of the seventeenth century,
CaliXtus, for doubling this solid firma-
ment with the waters above it, was de-
nOunced as hereto. And we know
how long and bitterly the church OPP
posed the astronomers who were at
last removing it. But how. much its
removal has helped, not only science,
but religion. These wonderful waters
brought from far off seas, and held in
visibly over our heads, without need of
any armament walls to support them,
and falling so truly in dews and rains
without need of angels to tend the Win
doWs-show much better providence
than Cosmas' cisternS or whole system.
And the vanishing of the old armament
with its little lights beneath-only to
show boundless universe, with
infinite worlds moving in etrnal order
aWakenS our reverence and religious
feelings far more than any ancient
creation story ever did. Enlarging
knowledge may not multiply churches,
or kindle the zeal of SectS to establish
their particular dOctrineS-but it lifts
us above our little divisions and fears
into that feeling of common brother
hood and caimer trust, which is re-
ligiOu.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-05
LAND TAX THEORIES.
An Interesting Discussion in

AN Interesting DISCUSSION in
Methods of Raising Revenue.
The debate on the question Resolved,
That Single Tax on Land Values Is
Not Correct Method of Raising Public
Revenue" at the meeting of the
Anti-Poverty association at Window
hall last evening was both interesting
and instructive. Frank HaSkinS, of st.
Paul, the author of several essays upon
labor and economic topic, assumed the
negative. and T. H. Lucas and
E. j. Buell. the affirmative. Mr..
Haskins endeavored to show that
The best system of raising revenue by
the government would be to lend money
on land and make possession and usage
the only true title to land. This is in
brief the tenor of his remarks, although
he did not clearly define his theory.
Messrs. Buel and Lucas assumed that
the land would thus be given to people
by the government, and then the gov
erDment would be placed in the posi-
ton of being compelled to take the
same land for security. 1t would be the
same proposition if you should give a
man coat and then acceptita as security
for a loan. The interesting topic is to
be still further discussed and next Sun
day evening, when representatives from
the Anti-Poverty society, will
discuss the question: "ResOlved, That
the single land tax theory advanced by
Henry George is the only true enamel
pater of labor" The speakers on the
affirmative will be L. III. Lucas and ID.
G. Buell.; negative, A. l.. Gordner and
A. T. Butler. The Anti-POverty society
will hold its regular meeting next Sun
day evening, and elects officers the 18th.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-05
SOME WILL TAKE 1T.
If Minneapolis LOafers Refuse
God IS Word, Africa Waits for 1t.

If Minneapolis Loafers Refuse
God IS Word, Africa Waits for 1t.
The position that Christianity must
precede civilization was taken by Rev.
w. J. Lhamon, at the Church of Christ,
yesterday morning, in sermon on
Foreign Missions" He said, in con-
clusion: Moffat was in South Africa
fifty-three years. To-day you may
travel from Thurman to Cape Colony on
good roads, crossing the Orange river
on an iron bridges and the smaller rivers
on well made wooden ones; where once
there were deserts and wild beasts
jungle, and bands of naked warriors,
there are now pretty, peaceful villages;
in all the journey you would not see a
babe, nor warning tribes burning
towns and leading old women
and little children into slavery.
In many lands the gospel is working
such changes before our eyes at the
present time. Fifty years ago it was
said of the Karens in India, ''that they
were as hard to reach with the gospel
as the wild cow Oh the mountains. Now
the converts from that people give 1884,,
600 a year TO missions" Mr.. Darwin
says of the people of the Sandwich
islands that their religion and morality
seemed to him ''highly creditable," and
he declares that it is "baSe ingratitude
in a voyager to forget that these people
have been lifted out of system of prof
legacy unparalleled in any other part of
the world,H from infanticide and human
sacrifice, and bloody wars, in which
neither women nor little children were
spared. Speaking of New Zealand he
saws: 'The lesson of the missionary is
the enchanter's wand"
The day Of missionary experiment is
over, Success has set the seal OF Gods
approval on modern missions, and the
Holy Spirit is regenerating those pagan
lands for which we pray most and
wherein we work most. 1t is highly
gratifying to know that if we cannot
convert the drunkards, salOonkeepers,
gamblers and lechers of our own cities
and towns, we can convert the cannl-
balls and pOlygamists of New Zealand
and Papua and Ujiji. If we cannot
convert the pleasure-seekers and NAM
mOn-lOvers and lazy Sunday loafers of
Minneapolis, we can convert the dark
barbarans who live along the Congo.
If there are Thousands at home willnot
hear, thank God there are thousands
in Africa and India and China and
Japan who will hear. Thousands who
have been sitting in darkness so long
that they gladly recognize and CRATE
fully accept Christ, the light. Thousands
upon weOm the morning has dawned,
and who have themselves arisen to Sa-
lutte the morning, shall come from the
East and from the West and from the
North and from the South, and shall sit
down in the kingdom of God.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-05
SUBDUED SOCIALISTS.
No Soap Chewed at a Meeting Held
Last Night.

There was nothing shaggy or terrify-
ing about the twenty-five men who
made up socialists meeting at DANA
hall last night. There was not red
beard nor an unkempt head in the room,
and the sentiments uttered were decid-
eddy too slow to be dangerous. Mr.
Brayton presided, and announced the
meeting to be an American section
of the Socialistic Labor party. Mr..
Devine kept the records, and his
duty was nothing more burdensOme
than mounting guard over lot of So
cialiStic literature spread out Oh table.
A. l.. Gardner, the organizer, was the
speaker, and for an, hour delivered him
self of those familiar platitudes which
tell us socialism is not robbery, but is
equality. Mr.. Gardner is not Cicero.
but there was one little man who sat in
the front row and who waited ca
gerly for each pause as it
came, then he would fall
upon it and applaud heroically, his
noise waking up two or three men
whose heads dropped during the long
sentences. Fritz Gellerup, the fiery
eyed, was there, but did not speak, say
ing confdentially that he was barred
on this occasion, but was to speak at
Rev. Jansen's church next Mon
day. Evert Nymanover was singularly
absent, and, it is said, his pleasant
experience with King Oscar has made a
blOated aristocrat of him and hereafter
socialistic circles will seek him in vain.
Last nights meeting was fair sam
pie of them all, except that generally
there is little fiery eloquence which
was conspicuOuslY absent last night.