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Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-24
PASSING or THE PRAIRIE DOG.
Western Grnzicrs Have Declared In- ccssant War Against the De-
 EtrUctivs DUrrOwcr.

The agricultural experiment. station. at Lincoln, Seb., has just issued a bul..tin which seals the fate of that picturesque little fellow, the prairie dog. the only object that gives vital interest to the monotonous plains of the far west, says the Los Angeles Ex press. l. is always relief 10 run past 3 prairis dog town in the interminab!y dull eApanse of cactus and sage brush. but his time has come, and he must speedily become an extinct animal. and the holes which have once known him shall know him no more forever.
 Tho industrial forces of civilization are leagued against the prairie dog, and it is his own fault. for. innocent as he looks. he is bad. Like Artemus Wards kangaroo. he is an '.amoosin little cuSs." But he is destructive. He kills out ths grass. and as that part of the country frequeated b. the prairie dog is almost entire-y uSsd for grazing purposes. his eNtermination has been ordered to save the land from his rav ages.
 The bulletin gives the fatal prescrip ton in minute detail: First. dissolve three ounces of Strychnine and one half pound of potassium of cyanide in one quart of boili=s water. Then add two quarts of P lasSss and one tea spoonful of oil of anise. Stir. Then pour the solution over bushe. of wheat and, while miaia. it together. sprinkle in four pounds Of finely grexns corIneal, which enables the .raias ct whea. to carry 2 large amount st i- Cynomys Lu6oviciaas. but ons ts. spoonful at a hole ends the career e the whole family. and the propsvti.' given above will dispose of tenn B: soc acres. the number ot ami.ies to il,. acre rankin. from go to 1so.
 The bulletin further says that :is year the poisoning is hein. done over \ large range of territory, and With gratifying results. so that it is not iuI- proba bls in short time the last prairie dog will have disappeared. The rail- road traveller. as he crosses the plains. will miss the sigh. of the little fs.lows who have added life and .ayety to the otherwise monotonous scenery. But they should not have been bad. It is to be regretted that ths lsaraed bulletin was not sufficiently explicit. It does not tell what becomes of the prairie dogs boarGers. the ow. and the rattle snake. who, though never seen, were once popu-arIy believed to share with him the comforts of home and to dwell together in delightful concord. Do they also partaks of the tempting neal left at the door. and pass away with ths proprietor and his family, or do they expire of grief as they witness the sad tragedy? .'
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-24
t -7Ff 7. | 7Xf WAIT FOR THE DISROBING.
Strange sEactsE kSs n s4 rhat codash
 Feast on iehstsr. When the
 Latt.r5shsasTheas eas Shells.

It is probably news to the majority of peppls9to know thatxthe red or rock eodashsis i bitter enemy of ths slobstef thas kas juss scraWled cut. of his Shsll and ix soft and unable to protect .Ainsslf, say. tAs Lswiston CNs) JauEnals DarirG shslaing time these Holsters crawl uD ssaer HrDjset- iaS rocks where the Seawsed and kslp are thick and where thsy And pre- testsd places Ia which ts go tkrsuxh shs TrseeSS of slipping cut of their s!d shells and taking CD new coat of mail, Sc to speak. For some eays after shedding the Holsters 0Ee weak and unable to cope with those fish that wage war upon them. This fact the codfsa seem intuitively to know, and they will swarm around these re- treats in great numbers and wait for the. ssedders. to crawl out.s '.
 Ah {old lohs ter, ifs ahernlanF said the other morning that many times he had stopped his dory over g. large number of these red cCdfSh and watched their operations. He had even dropped his line down and dan gled tempting bait within few feet of them. Unless it happened to fall directly in front of their noses, how ever, they would seldom take it. as they wsre after lobster meat. When the thin -shelled Holsters would crawl out from beneath the protecting sea weed the codfiSh would dart at them and strike them fierce blows with their tails, disabling them completely. They would then fall to and devour the helpless crustaceans. This per formance the lobster fisherman said he had witnessed many times. The shedding season is now practically over, and the shells of the Holsters are becoming firm and hard and they are fully able to take care of themselves
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-24
LAWYERS ARE BARRED OUT.
Novel Court in Pennsylvania Con- aueted by 2 Noacrmnix.toned
 HunEarlAn PkilRnthroplst.

George Slaine, Hungarian banker and Slav in interpreter of the cr;Ininal court ct West cre2nd county, Pa. has fully ,earnsa the title of judge without eysr having hald 2 co nl mission Ss no- tary. ( I erlpan n ar squire. He conducts . ssurt in whicA there arc no lawyera, and the eaiy law is tAa: of eos nAoa seaSs. ,...E.
 GresnSburg h tha hssrt of tAs Ahv &str:ct. ThouSa nds of miners have ns idea of ths rights of themselves and their fellow citizens under tha law. They, are abrupt, suspicious and lax in morals. They quarrel with great frequency, anc3 make all sorts of un- usual trades. Now and thsn they sell or exchange wives. For wives are re- Sorded there as. conveniences, and every spring large numbers of Hun garian girls are brought over and quickly taken for wives by the men. These girls do not always stick to :hc::1 promises to marry the first men they meet. And this is the cause of most of the litigation before Judge" Slaine. The judge" has no regular court room. When a complainant seeks his advice he b.unders right into tn. judges" banking house and begins the recital of his-or her. for there are many quarrels among the women-bill of complaint. The "jud.e" hears both sides, talks peace. and in. the majority of cases persuade them to drop the matter. One case he had was that ot 0 man who had exchanged wives with another man, with pair of boots as '"bo ot." The exchange was made, but the boots were not forthcoming. An other case was that of Say whose sweetheart had tilted him after he had got a marriage license. He wanted to have her put in prison until she paid him POO. The judge" talked him into good hunor, ard now the young man is married to apother girl.
 My reason for taking up this buai- ness-from which I get no financial re- turns-was to keep my fellow country men cut of the hands of lawyers ard magistrates, who too often encourage instead of discourage litigation. 1 have saved them many dollars in law yers' and court fees, and have prevent ed many serious affairs. cannot fine them, of course. but do the next best thinS-1 persuade them to give a small amount to charity"
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-24
PUZZLED ABOUT DESCENT.
Problem That Ia DistraotinG m EnE- li1h StuGent of GenealoEy-
 Subtle EalIacx

Here is little genealogical prcb- lem which perhaps some of the read CTS can solve. A man writes to the Liverpool Post saying: Il have, like the rest of human beings, two par ents. They in turn had each two These four grandparents had each two, and so on. Now, if we take on an average four generations to q cen tury, 33 generations have passed away since, the. time of William the Con- queror, and by the simple process of multiplying two by itself 9 times find that at the date of the Norman conquest l must have had S,5S9 ,o34, ,5s2 ancestors of that generation. But this is eight or nine times the total population of the globe at the pre3- ent day, and must be fully 20 or 40 times the total number of human be- ings 'livin. in. the eleventh century, so that there must be a fallacy in my calculation somewhere. Can anybody tell me-" he asks, what the fal- lacy isf' 'fi
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-24
CHINESE 1NTIPATH1Es.
They Arc Dassd Upon Some Ancient and Very Powerful
 Causcs.

It should be remembered that the antipathy of Chinese to foreigners from the west has several very an cient and. very powerful causes, says eN-Minister .AugeH in Atlantic,
 Profound differences of belief and of temperament separate the Asiatics generally by afwide ehasn from the Europeans. The golden age of the former, all their ideals belong to the tanlpte past t1hose af She latter be- ldns tos the fnthfs. yFheir3 economic ideas are far apart. Inventions, ma chinery, division of labor, belong to the Europeans, and are repeiled by the Asictics. Their religions touch. ing the deepest springs of life are dis cordant. The western man regards his civilization as so far superior to that of the eastern man that he slook4 dowl with certain contempt on him, contempt which is cherished to the full by the Yum for '.infidel dogs" by Brahmins Tor the conquerors of India by the Chinese for foreign devils"
 But the Chinese -havs special grisv- ances; the opening of ports and the imp 4siti6n ios ao6aoxio us, sreaties on them by force, the construction ot railways and tesscraphs, ard the workingyot smipss in .ssaeh 2 tsyay as ato disturb the graves of ancestors and fSf interfere with the feng.t shuI and thus to bring disaster On the people, and the presence of the unwelcome sforeigneranot only In the ports, but throughout the interior in the person [.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-24
AN UNCERTAIN GLANCE.
The Cros1-Eyec EailiH NrSs Unable to Give uis Friend the
 Right Cue.

1T am unlucky-just naturally un- luchy!" said 9 man from! one of the up- per parishss, relates the, New Orleans Ti1ncs-Dcmocrat, 'nnd nothing would induce me to entertain 2 proposition that was in any way open to chance. because if I did I know I would in- eyitably get the worst of it.. You may coll this superstition if you like, but It is supported by 90 many painful ex- periences that I would be fool to dis regard the warning. The last time I gave fortune chance to iab me in the solar pleNUs was several years ago, when @ bi. !awsui. was on trial at neighboring town. involving the title to Q large tract of land in which held an interest. couple of days before the case was closed an old negro aunty, whose husband was the baili6 in charge of the jury, told me that the verdict was already decided upon. Her husband had told her that the white gs'mmen had done made up their minds but having sworn not to say anything about the secrets of the jury room he wouldn't go any further ] had reason to believe the old woman's story was true. and, as prior tip on IllS TeSOlI WOCiu nave been worth lot Of money to me, I told her to tell him that l would give him $50 if he would simply look st the side that was going to win when I came into court that aft ernoon. He doesn't need to say word, added, so he won't be breaking his oath not to talk Of course, 1 ought'n to have employed any such so- phiStry, but 1 knew the old hypocrite only wanted 2 preteNt to be1ray his trust, and, sure enough, when I en- tered the courtroom he glared fixcdly at the side where the plaintiffs were seated. l went right ont and accepted an offer for my interest that had been made me on the quiet earlier in the week. The next day the jury returned 8 verdict for the defendants, leaving me about $2,oGo out of pocket by req son of my action. I hunted up the bailiT to get some of his gore for lead. ing me astray. but when I found him I walked off without lifting finger. It was my cusScd luck once more He had tried to give ms straight tip, but he couldn't look the way he wanted to to save his soul. He was the only cross-eyed niggsr in the parish"
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-24
WATERFOWL JoFTIRGs
Will Be Decided This Week Whether
 f. We Have Football or Not.% <


 4 We Have Football or, Not.% < < Whether Watertown will be repre- scented by 8 football teansor not, is at present a question, which will be de cided this week. In former years Watertown- has been represented by 2 first class team and several games were played each season. Of last years team there are several who are willing to play, again. this season. Henry Mack at fullback was certain lya good line bucke,., with Porter and Norton at the half backs, both being good srouud-cainers and hard men to tackle. Emmons, R. Maxwell, T. Max well. l.. Daines, Warner and other Dl. men in the line ought to make Erst class team. l.. Bartlett also plays good game at quarter. Several chal- len.es have already been received from out-oftown teams.
 Grange Meeting.
 The Watertown Grange will hold their regular meeting at the town hap tomorrow evening. The subject fW' the lecture hour on that evening wll1 be How and What to Read--Ihe NaE ue of Spare MomentsTShall Farmers Sell Their Best Products: These lectures are open to discussion by all members of the Grange.
 A Challenge. -.
 The St Aloysious football team would like to arrange game With the second WatertOwn team Tor some sat urday. Any of the local teams wish ing a game should drop q line to John Gatfney, Park place. Waterbury.
 Notes.
 Silas Marshall has severed his con- nection with the Connecticut Lighting and Power Co.
 Don't forget the republican rally at the town hall tomorrow evening. United States Senator Platt will -ad- dress the people. 2, ..-
 Now that the leaves are nearly gone from the trees. more hunters are De- ginning to appear. The woods thls year are reported to be full Of game.
 Mir and Mrs Roderick Fitch have moved into the tenement house or Martha Benham.
 A number of the citizens here went to Waterbury on Tuesday to receive their naturalization papers.
 Fred Warner has accepted position as motorman with the Connectlcut Lighting and Power Co.
 Andrew Fox was able to be at his work again yesterday.
 The last train Monday night was held in Waterbury until 11:45 to al low those who attended "Sherlock Holmes" to catch the train.
 Fred and Ralph Bronson are doing carpenter work on Cherry street, Wa terbury.
 Charles Smith. the local poet. has just written another poem, with seV- eral loccl hits.
 MT Williams. formerly q blacksmith here, and who moved to the west last year, is visiting friends for few days in town.
 John Summers. who broke his leg some time ago was able to sit up for short time to-day. The boys who are to take part 1n 1 "Brynno" next week are rehearsing nightly This play was written by Rev H. x. Cunningham with assist ance of Morgan Cooley. The regular meeting of the k. of r. tomorrow n1Nht.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-24
A GORGEOUSLY BOUND

Work of art has just been issued at an outlay of over S100.O00. for which the publishers desire q manager i'll this county. also good solicitor: good pay to the right party. Nearly 100 full page ensravings. sumptuous paper. IT. lu1ninated covers and bindings; over POO golden lilies in the Morocco bind ings; nearly 90 golden roses ill the cloth bindings. Sell at sight; presses running day and night so great is the sale. Christian men and women mak- ing fortunes taking orders. Rapid promotions One Christian woman
 made clear $500 in four weeks taking orders among her church ncquaint- ances and friends. Write US. It may lead to q permanent position to man age our business and look after our large correspondence which you can attend, to right at your home. Address J. A. Knight. secretary. Corcoran building opposite United States treas ury, Washington, D. (.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-24
Sweet Apple Pickles.

TaIlman Sweets are bestsfor pickles. Select smooth apples below medium size and have them uniform. Be care fulthey are not wormy. Peel carefully and leave the stems on. The wCrmy ones should be quartered and cored and cooked separately. Allow two quarts of vinegar, four pounds of light brown sugar, one ounce each of ground cin- namon and cloves (tie the spice in little cheesecloth ba.s) and some sticks ot whole cinnamon. When Sca!ding hot put in enough apples oseook well. When they can be easily pierced with a broom straw skim out in a stone jar and cook the other apples. Pour the hot vinegar over the pickles, turn an inverted plate or saucerfover the jar and tie up securely with white muslin. The quartercd pickles should be put in two-quart glass jars and tla covers screwed tightly en- Ladies World.
 SIacsdoino of Fruit In Pineapple Shell
 Cut of the top of q large pineapple and trim it at the bottom so it will stand firm. Scoop cut the pulp with strong spoon and separate it from the hard core, which should be reject ed. Pare several oranges, divide into' sections and cut into suitable pieces, stem. few straw berries, pit few, cher r:es, slice some peaches or apricots and add any other fruits in market, Mix eths. pineapple pulp and other, fruits, add the juice of a lemon and powdered sugar to Sweeten. Place on ice for an hour or longer, and when ready to serve fill into the chilled shell of the pineapple and garnish it at the base with the crown leaves.-Pcstcr
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-24
MINCE PIES AND DREAMS.
ExtrayaEant VisiGns of tae Night Are Promoted by Indulgence
 in tho Pastry.

It Is interesting to note that the par taking of mince pie at evening" may h. duce bad dreams, but it is hardly prof itable to speculate deeply why my dream tco!l the form of leerln3 demon with the impoIite habit or Squatting cn my chest, says the Popu- lar Science Monthly. The stuff that dreams are made of is not susceptible of that type of analysis. The most generous allowance must be made for coincidences and irrelevancies and 1t must be constantly rem bered that ths obscure phenomena of psychology, and. indeed, the phenomena of more thoroughly established oana intrinsic ally more def nj te SeieHets;;- cannot be expected to pass the test ef fodetalled and concrete comBi nations of circun- stances. In other Glasses of know edge the tempt tation to demand such explicit explanations of observations and ex- periences Nis not so strong because o1 the abssncs of an equally strong per xonal interest; but that clearly does not affect the logical status Of the problem. The reply to this argument 1 can readily anticipate; and l confess that my admirati ton of Hamlet is some what du.led by reason of that iH-ad vsed remark to Hor2tio about there bein. more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philoso- -phies.
 The occultist always seizes upon that citation to refuts the scientist. He prints it as his motto on his books and journals. and regards it as slow poison that will in time effect the de struction- of the abbie of scientist, and reveal the truth of his owD psycho science or heliocen- tric aftrology. Ii is ons rtnins to be open minitded and to osfrl IF !!ailL e4hte 4hte rfcco n pleteness of scientific kno wled.e and to appreciate how often what was iC nored by one generation has become the science of,the next; and it is very different. thing to be impressed with coincidences and dreams and prenopi tions. and to regard them as giving thu keynote to the conception of nature and reality. aud'to look upon science as misdirected effort. Such differences of attitude depend frequently upon difference of Temperament as we'll as upon intellectual discern ment; the man or woman who flies to ths things not dreamed of in oar philosophy quite commonly does not uncerstatld [ the things which our philosophy very r creditably accounts for. The two types of mind are different and q am citing Prof. James, "the scientific. academic mind and the feminine-m mys. tical mind shy from each others facts just as they fly from each others tenn.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-24
David City. Neb. April l, 1900

David City, Neb, April l. 1000. Gcness Pure Food Go. Le Roy. N. r.: Gentlemen: I must say in regard to GRAIN-O tEat there is nothing better or healthier We have nsed 1t for years. My brother was a. great coffee drinker He was taken sick and the doctor said coffee was the cause of it. and told us to use GRAIN-O. We got a package but did not like 1t at first but now would not be without it. My brother has been we'll ever since we started to use it. Yours truly,
 LITTLE SOCHOR.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-08-10

take part in contests between
democrats, and nothing said in
praise of him must be construed
as an expression of preference
for him for the nomination against
any other democrat representing
democratic principles as set forth
in the Chicago platform. The
democrats of that district must
select the representative most ac-
ceptable to them, and | assure
YOU that have no desire 10 in-
terfere in any way. | am glad
you called my attention to the
matter.
Yours trucly,
w. j. Bryan.
1t will thus be seen that MIR.
Bryan had no idea of his letter
being used as Mr.. Enloe has used
| it. MIR. Sims criticised the use Of
letter written to Mr.. Suloe by
Mr.. Bryan while he was in Ken
lucky, as editor of a paper and
never intended to be used as an
election scheme.
Mr.. Enloe in his rejoinder, as
well as in speech, charged that
he was really nominated in 1896,
but. the committee refused 10 i'll
vestigate charges made by him
and declared Mr.. Sims the nomi-
nee; that he had submitted to the
wrong thus done him and sup
ported Mr.. Sims rather than dis
organize the.party, and appealed
to the democrats of the district
to right the wrong done him in
1896, by nominating him for con-
gress this time.
To this charge of Mr.. Enloe
Mr.. Sims replied that by the
rules under which the primary of
1896 was held, that each can
didate was permitted to select
one eff the judges to hold said
election. That Mr.. Enloe, Mr.
Trout and himself had availed
themselves of the benefit of this
rule; that consequently a friend
of each candidate was present
at each voting place Of said pri-
mary for the special purpose OF
seeing that no wrong or injustice
was perpetrated upon any of the
candidates; that after the primary
was thus held, that Mr.. Enloe
and his friends claimed that The
returns showed on their face that
Mr.. Enloe was nominated, and
that his friends claimed the same
that with both OF them claiming
the nomination on the face of re-
turns, the congressional com
mittee met at Lexington andde'
cided that in as much as the
primary had been held in the
manner stated, that no substan
tial injustice could have beer
done either of the candidates
and therefore decided to declare
the result on the face of the re
turns as returned by the primary
Continued on next page.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-08-10

Tie Joint discussion as amour.
&C.. was had between the candi-
dat for the Democratic nOmina.
ito IN this district at Savannah
last Monday, Aug. 6. There was
az cd crowd in attendance.
r.. Enloe led off, followed by
Me. SIS. Trout. Sims and Cole, in
the order named.
Mr.. Sims began by stating that
he was nominated aud elected up.
on specific platform, giving spe.
cific directions on all issues pend.
ing in the campaign of 1896; that
the Spanish war came on, present
ing mrny new and grave ques-
tons on which there had been no
platform expression by the demo.
cratic party; that he had voted ON
all those grave and important
questions as to his judgement ap
peared right, and that he was glad
to know that the party and his
constituents had endorsed all
these votes and approved his pc.
sitiOn on all questions growing
out of the Spanish war. He thank.
ed them for the kindness they
had shown him heretofore: stated
that he did not consider that the
democrats of this district owed
him anything; that they had done
more for him than he could ever
do for them; but that if they were
satisfied with his record and be-
lieved that he could serve them as
well OF better than his opponents
and could be easily elected, if
nominated, he asked their sup.
port.
In reply to criticisms made by
Mr.. Enloe, he stated that Mr.. En-.
loe had ever been represented by
his friends as very active and
attentive member of congress, that
10 enable him to determine this
matter, properly, he had examin,
ed the journal of the House for
he fifty-third congress and found
that there were As yea and nay
votes in said session, that he also
found that Mr.. Bryan was a mem,
Der of said congress, that Mr.
Bryan voted AZ times in said SEES
sion and was recorded az not an.
swering 6 times, and the demo
Gratis from Tennessee in said ses
sion are recorded as follows:
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-08-10
ANNOUNCEMENTS,

FOR CONGRESS
We are authorized to announce T. w SIMS
candidate for reelection rs Represent
alive in Congress from the sth congress iona
district of Tennessee, subject to the demo
cratic primary TO be held on August 25 1900,