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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11
rhurs,ou ou the Death Sentences.

WASHINGTON. Feb. ll.-Lorrln A. Thurs ton, the Hawaiian minister. being asked whether he had any information concern ing the alleged sentencing to death of some of the leaders in the late Hawaiian insurrcction and whether in his opinion such sentences, If given. would be carried out. made the following statement:
 II have received no direct communIca- ton concerning the sentences. nor do know precisely what action will bS taken. but from my intimate acquaintance with all Hawaiian authorities and their chArno- tors and methods oan state positively that all trials will be open and fair; that tho accused will he allowed the assistance of counsel Of their own choosing. who wIll be allowed the fullest right of cross exam instion and Of defense; that thsre will bo no convictions which are not based upon the Clearest evidsnoe and that the author ities will be as lenient in the infliction of punishment as is consistent with their duty to protect the community from fur ther outhreak with possibly far moro bloodshed than attended she recent out break.
 If there is any particular policy in which the Hawaiian government has erred during the past two y0ars 1t is In having been too lenient in dealing with those who have continuously sohsmed to overthrow it-frst by strategic diplomacy and then by force
 From its inception the government has exhibited a IcnIency toward its enemies that Is unparalleled in history. This ex- treme leniency has been a feature of the administration of President Dole which has caused criticism from many of his strongest supporters
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11
The Hot Water Rar.

When tho india rubber hot water bag is as inexpensive as it is at present, it becomes almost a duty to possess one The water to fill them is always attain able. and the comfort of the possession will amply repay the expense. Ere quentiy they relieve pain in n far sim pier and more effectual manner than does any medicine. A bag placed on the sidO of the neuralgia face will cause the blood to flow to that part and bring nourishment to the starving nerve. \ fit of indigestion may Do overcome in . similar manner. The weak heart may be assisted by a very scantily filled bag being placed under the left arm against the side Then, again, says a writer in Good Housekeeping. carefully concealed in its dark colored bag. what a comfort able companion for long, cold country drive! Always soothing. never contra dictory. it is actually a l:fe saving ma chine.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11

IF Japan wins, which she certainly will. the Japs will rise so in publc estimation that her princes and other pobles will be- come notable catches American heiresses who are seeking for titled mates should make note of this. for when this cruel war is ended, the titled Japanese young gentlemen will DO doubt be on the qui vive for wives. and as the object with good many girls appears to be to have a nobl, man for husband, it will make no difference whether they are Italian. Ger mans. English. Australian or Japanese. They do seem to draw the line on Chinese. The story is recalled of the venerable spiusttr who went out to the woods, had just hegun her invocation for help. when an owl in the vicinity rang out, "TO-who? To-wb,:" to which interrogstory the lady replied. Anybody, good Lord. so its a man"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11
LAST YEARS OF ACTORS
Declining Days of Some Fa-
 nous Stage Folk.
MOST OF THra iMPROvIDEXT.

TherO Have Been Many S"tablo Exccp-
 tions, However. to IT G4lcraI Rule.
 AdcllnA Patti, Jenny | t.nd Christine
 Nilsson Were Thrifty Song Birds.
 The person who goes to the theater or opera can never associate the brightly clad heroes and heroines whom he sees before him with poverty. And in most cases it would be as unnecessary as erroneous to do it, for tho play actor" who is at all popular is flush with money until his pow CTS wane and the public tires of him. Then the poverty steps in, for the average hummer Is improvidcnt. Having hccn ac- customcd to receiving Il largo salary and deluded by a spirit of self exaltation into the absurd belief that his services will al ways Do fin demand. he yields to the nu- merous temptations to spend his money freely with convivial companions In most cases, as natural consequence, when tho day of retirement comes, as it practically invariably q Jcs, not only Is there not the whcrewithal to provide the accustomed luxuries, but frequently not enough to keep tho lgurativo wolf from the door.
 Tho final days of the lives of thoso but terfiies of the stage whose names arc fa. miliar to generations of thcator gocrs con tain many pathetic and some very peace full pictures Every sincere adnircr of the peerless Edwin Booth regretted that he postponed his retirement so long that his waning powers made 1t absolutely ncces- sary. He left fortune of $6OO, 900, thanks to the business ability of Lawrence Bar rett, who by tho irony of fatc died pos sessed of little or no means The sad end of the earthly career of John Mccullough is familiar to every one who takes an in
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11
Ferhap. IIcn nc rhere.

Fourteen years ago. he began As the conductor of a Michigan avenue car came in for his fare. 'l4 years ago l was in Detroit and took A ride on this same line and r. this same car. and you were the conductor who came for my fare V
 Fare, please. " said the conductor
 II had been the victim of a misfor- tune was dead broke could not even raise a nickel 10 psv my fare When told you as Iluca ,ud threw myself on your generosity. what did you do:"
 Fare, sir. "
 "Ah, I remember as if il were but yesterday" continued the man as a broard smile crept over his face.
 II want your fare, sir. exclaimed the annoyed conductor.
 "Yes, just as you wanted it then, and again I throw myself on your generosi ty."
 Either pay your fare or get off '' Just as you told me 14 years ago same voice. same expression of counte nance It is hard to realize that even ( week has elapsed "
 Will you payf'
 "No-no pay. couldn't if wanted to. I'll get of and try to get lift or n butcher cart or a wood wagon. Thinl of it''
 Yes. l think you belong to the order of deadbeats. replied tho conductor a. he stopped the car.
 Fourteen years have elapsed-sam' line, same car. same conductor, sam, struggle with misfortune. Say, olC man, see you l4 years later right or this corner at 2:30 p. m.. and hope by that time 10 have n nickel. Two bells let Ter go Ia, taF'-Detroit Ere, l Press.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11
THE PIANO AccoMPANIsT.

Some of the Numerous and Varied Acquire
 ments Necessary.
 Few listeners have any adequate com prehension of the arduous and responsi- ble duties devolving upon the person who is mOdestly placed as accOmpanist. The requirements of an accompanist are numerous and varied and demand q much greater amount of attention and study than is generally supposed or than the exponent of the art of accompanying is credited with giving. Hc must bo a quick and accurate reader, ablO to read. fly grasp the intention of the composer as in progress the ideas of the compost ton are upfolded. To this end the phras- ing must be correct, and tho quality of the touch employed must be such as will produce the tone required to prop erly represent tho sentiment expressed by the composer. While having n fairly decided conception of his own, he must be prepared to absorb the conception felt by the soloist, and so mold his own ideas that they blend with those of the soloist and form a complete and well developed background to the musical picture of which the solo is the central figure. In carrying out this design great care is necessary. so that the soloist re- ceives just the proper amount of sup. port
 The accompaniment should not force or override the solo; neither must it be of that dragging character which causes the singer to feel as if pulling heavy burden up a steep incline. To preserve this happy medium" is, says a writer in The Etude. the crucial test of true accompanist, and the possession of such ability may we'll condono the lack oi some other traits. For the time being soloiSt and accompanist should be R. one
 To accomplish this desirable result the player should have as complete knowledge of the composition as tho singer
 While he must be Q correct timist, il is necessary to possess that f1exibility of temperament that will enable him tC flow along with the principal through bars of everchanging value. irrespective of what the time signature may be, O course he must be able to transpose tC meet tho requirements of pianos of in correct pitch or the effect of the weath CT upon the voice of tho soloist.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11
SHOCKED BY ASTORS.
Albany Church Folk Met an ArIstocratIc
 SknIina. IartN.

AIDSuN ' hhFCh FOLK het an
 skating Party.
 AIBANV. Feh, ll--Th" morals of this ZCOl old Dutch town were ruiely shocked yesterday. ana that too by party of New lori; society peopo ; ncr the re form administration CA,ne into power and closed tho doors of the S.!pGns on sunday an! cumpo od people 10 be good whether they wautC.i tO or not it has become the ,'uSth:n fO- everybody 10 Go to church.
 luaci"e the surprise ut the church goin z population in the morning when on their way tu the kirks of varIous faiths the, met a party of richly dressed strangers clad in furS and other costly rai'nent. with skates Slung over their shou. GcrS. Inquiry deve.o; ed the fact that the arly was John !. AS;or'S, and at his invitAtiun was out to pass the sabbath morning skating at the rink of local curling club.
 In the party were MT. and Mrs Astor. Miss FveIyn Burden. MT. Cutting and Mir. Webh all of New York. with A few Albanians The family of Governor Nor ton was invited. but the members occu- pied thelr usual seats in All Saints cathe dral Tho party skated for about an hour. and after dinner took a special train foI New York.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11
Household Hints.

A rug. from a sanitary point of view. is moro desirable than carpet in the bedroom.
 In tho dining room a stained floor and large center rug will be found moro convenient than any all over carpet
 If the boards of bare floor do not fit perfectly, fill in tho spaces with putty previous to painting or staining the floor
 Flock papers are department of wall paper production that have won a commanding reputation for excellence and beauty.
 Old fashioned denims make service able rugs for bathrooms.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11
he 9eamnctat,
o. and M. T. MALoNEY. Pus1lnHEns.

MARIE JoNIAUx. who has been convicted in Belgium of having murdered her broth CT. her sister and her uncle by poison. will not have to suffer death under the Belgian law, although her sentence reads that way. Such a fate is rather to be preferred to that winch awaits her. however She will go to prison for life They will put her io cell into which daylight cannot pene- trate. She will never see human being. never hear a human voice again. They will push her food in through a slit in the wall of her cell. It is hardly likely that she will long survive that treatment.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11

tcrCst in theatrical affairs Tho great Ed win Forrest endowed the fine home for in digcnt actors which bears his name.
 Of the stage favoritcs who arc rapidly nearing thu retiring point therc arc of course some who have become wealthy. Of this class Adrlina Patti is perhaps the hest cxampl" Taking advnntago of her mar velously well preserved voice. shr has compelled managers to pay her from $3.- 900 t0 5000 for public appearances, and at tho end of n season would realize from $25O OOO tO $4OO, GOO as her sharc of tho procccdS Cnliko not few ladies of her calling. Patti knew how to invest her money and laid it away to the hcst advan- tagc Shc Is p'portcd to bc worth from 8. OOO, GOO to $4, ,U0O GOO. whtlo on her Welsh castle, Craig y.NuS. sho has prOba- bly expcndc,. $l. OUO. GOO moro in improve mCnts of various kinds
 Adelina'S $ elder sister CarlOtta. who was thought by most persons to pns>, sS the better voice of the two, was shut out from opera by a disease of the hip Her range was marvellous, extending from ( below the treble staff to G sharp in altissimo. She was not as prudent as Adclina and was earning living as q teacher of sing. ing when she died in Paris in lSS9 In private lifc sho was Mime. Ernest de Munck.
 Etelka Gerstor was born of wealthy par ents She is a Hungarian and is but 39
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11
Weather H0FseASas Fair; northwest windA SAVED BY A MURDERER.

SHNGO 70 ~ "SHNOSN-Ns Lambert Tried ts Prevent . Suicide Ia
 JaIl.
 CAMDEN, \. J., Feb ll.-Dory LAm- bert. the negro murderer who is legally dead according so his counsel and who for the present has been saved from the gal lows on that contention. showed c surpris- ing amount of life. He had . fierce en- counter in the jail with half orAzed man. who in some way had managed to secure a knife Lambert's opponent was James McCue, . travelling salesman from Phila- delphia, who was picked up on the streets of this city on Feb : in an intOxioated condition. He was sent to jail and has been bordering on lhs dellFum tremsns since then.
 Lambert noticed AcCuS with kinfs ln his hand and walked toward him AcCus seemed to guess LAmbers's intention and quick as . flash he drew the keen blade across his throat Lambert spranG At him, and 6 desperate fight for the possession OI the weapon snsued- The man rolled about the floor, which was covered with blood from the wound in McCus's throat
 Lambert's face was scratched by the an gers of the would be suioide and one o his eyes was blackensd. but hs fought on The wounded man was growing weaker and Lambert finally pinned him to th' floor, but not until McCue had gos hi fingers into the wound in his throat. snS attempted to rip 10 wider open. AeClI' was removed Co the Cooper hsapitAl h' has slim chnncoA of Ieceyary.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11
NerottatIon. For Arbitration Treaty

WAsHINGToN, Feb ll.-Thc recent visit to Washington of Mir Cremer. the British member of parliament who was charged with the presentation to our government of a memorial signed by about 35O of his colleagues in parliament urging the negO- tiation of an arbitration treaty with Great Britain. has resulted in stimulating inter est in that project which had rather lagge,l since the introduction of the Allison rcSo- lution some years ago In congress tho proposition has taken tangible shape in a radical joint resolution submitted by Sen ator sherman and referred to the commit tee on foreign relations fully authorizing the president to move in the matter
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11
A wild Hawaiian Rumsr.

SAN FRANCIsco, Feb. ll.-Ths Exsm- iner prints & story from its correspondent at Honolulu to the effect that Admiral Beardsleo has taken possession of Pearl hArbor and declared a professionals over the Hawaiian Islands The news came to Victoria by the steamer Wartime
 wAsHINGToS. Feb. 1.-The report that Admiral Beardalee has seiEsd Pearl haFhOF and declared a prOtectoFats over the HA- waiian Islands is not believed herA Nal. ther the state nor navy department has any intimati0n of such action. 10 is stat ed by both that Admiral Bsardsloe's ln- structions have Alresdy been made publio and that there is nothing in them to jus tify such action on his part
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11

vocal strength had departed It never re- turned, and it is said that sho Is now a prematurely old woman, sourod by disap puiutmcnt in tho absorbing ambition of her life
 Wonderful David Garrick became old gracefully, which Is moro than can be said for the famous Mmo Mara, tho soprano singer who delighted the ears of our Grcat great grHndfathors in opera. Sho kept tho stage steadily until almost 53 years of age, when her voiCo showed n marked decline She could not be persuaded by her friends to cease hor public appearances and only did so when convinced by tho CUldncSS Ot the audiences of tho truth of the rcpreSen- tations that had ht'cn made to her Uu the subject Al her last appearance in Lon don. in lS02. Just before her rctirenient she demanded and received Gl,OOo for singing two songs But tho poor woman could not pcrsundc herself to stay out of the vocation in which sho had made her fame Applause for her had become tho breath of life But after repeated trials managers refused to engage her, knowing that they would loSc, and having saved nothing of tho half dozen fortunes that in one way or another she had received she was reduced to almost poverty and com pelled to support herself by teachins
 Tine earnings of tho great Catalani were larger still than thoSo of Mara. About the close of lSO7, when she was engaged in a theater in London, exaggerated reports of the immense sums that she received got abroad and damaged her popularity aS an artist Her manager was equal to tho emergency, however, for he printed a pamphlet in which he told frankly what sums she had received from the theater and what from other sources, and from this document it appears that in that year she was paid by the theatcr e5, 900 and | from all other sources, as concerts, private | recitals in the houses of the nobility and l the like. enough moro to bring the total | mp to ZIG, 700. or uhout $S3, 500, which her manager naively adds is all that shO has received" Most people would consider
 this sum a very fair rate of annual com
 pensation even for singing c in altissimo, | but for Catalani and her drunken huS-
 band the sum was altogether too small | Her establishment was kept upon vcry l lavish scale. She retired in 1897, at the | age of Is, and with what funds she could
 hide from the diligent researches of Valla' bregere, her husband, sho bought villa near Florence, where she lived tho rest of her life in e very modest, unassuming manner.
 Jenny Lind (Mme Goldschmidt), the
 Swedish nightingale, rivaled either Mara
 or CatalAni in tho purity and flexibility oi T
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11

years of age. Sho has never known poverty. but it is said that her re-
 tirenCnt from the stage was taken SO much to heart by her that 1t nearly resulted fatally.
 Shc was in the zenith of her pow CTS whom shC mar rietl. X child was born. and when GCrStCr next at tempted to sing even the best of her friends wcrc compelled to ac- knowledge that hCr uhCnOnlOnal
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11
AN ICY WONDER.
The Falls al .>Iagsra Transformed by .
 Blizzard.

NIAGAHA FAILS. Feb. 1l-With the subsistence of the storm and the conse- ;uent clearing of the atmosphere pictures of leluty about the falls have been re- ve1led 10 which DO pen picture could do justice The very low temperature which has prevailed. together with the high winds, which blew the spray from the fall ing water in every direction. has resulted in the creation of innumerabls forms of varied and fantastic beauty.
 The ice mountain at the foot of the falls Is enormous and tho park and is lands while difficult to traverse. are weirdly beautiful Every tree and shrub and every building Is incased in a marble like coat of Ice, so thick in some cases that not a few of the former have been broken and destroyed
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11
From the American Ring Co.

O. H. MiIlsF who has worked for the American Ring Go for the past seven years as a tool maker. and lives at 20 Ward street, had been suffering with neuralgia for the past three weeka. He secured ir- stant relief free of charge by one appli. cation of U-So oil. He bought . bottle of the oil at the advertising price 25 cents, and vent home smiling Ofaco oI U-No Tonic Co. sl South Main street.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11
Prominent Humanitarian Dead.

PIrr>RURG. Fch ll.-Leonard II. Fla ton, widely known as an educator through out Pennsylvania and the country gen erally died at his residence at the ago ot 76 of pneumonia He was president of the Western Pennsylvania Humane SO ciety and was at one time president of the National Humane society
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11
rrnChiIdrcn Rnrnr,i.

BRAZIL, Ind. Feh IA 6-year old son and a S-month- old daughter of Will liam CasSiday. residing eight miles north Of this city. were burned to death It Is thought their clothing caught fire whilH they were playing around n Grats
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11
Tons of Tobacco Burned.

LOUISVILLE. Fch. ll.-Firo completely guttod the Crescent tobacco warehouse at Raleigh and Main streets and Meyer, Bridges & Go, woodcnware, at >53 West Main street, were alSo burned out. About 360 hogShcads of tobacco werr burned
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11
Movable Wall Decoration

Too much reliance is placed upon pie
 lures for wall spaces. Some pictures are not decorative at all-for example, small water color drawings, with broad white margins More may be done by the use of small hanging mirrors, Venetian or
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11
Dead In HI. Studio.

NEw YORK, Feh l.-Charles J. Bridg- man. the noted Brooklyn artist and TO. cluse. is dead His body was found in his studio on the upper floor of the South Brooklyn hank building. I9 Atlantic ave- Due
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11

her vocal organs md excellcd both in the fortunate circum stances that in her retire ment sho was com plimon ted with moro ntten- tlon than during the height of her career. Sho was we'll paid too In a single season in
 a AZEn
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-11

rul. and he had securely barricaded the entrance with furniture so that the door oould not bc broken down. When finally entrance was effected, he was found dying of starvation In his case, as in that of many others. improvidence brought its swn reward, for RctOrs are governed by the same economic laws us other people and must pay tho same penalty for their vi ,lation.