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wANTRD-HOoMs AND BOARD.

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family, within few blocks Of Capitol: Sc or
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Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-20
WATERBURY STORE, ,89 BANK STREE
ECHOES FROM INDIA.

In his recent report on the Indian famine the viceroy, Lord Curzon, says that it is impossible to tell the actual mortality. but there has apparently been an excess of deaths over the normal number of 75o,OO0.
 The infantile mortality in Calcutta last year was very high, giving ratio of 366.3 to every 1000 children born during the year, the Mohammedan ratio being 504.3, the Hindu ratio 2s4.7, while the Christian, was only 174.4. ,-
 The cultivation of tea in India has increased at an extraordinary rate during the last Is years. In 1885 the total acreage was 2s3 ,925, in 1890 it had risen to 344,s27 and in 1895 to 415,717, while at the end of 1899 the area stood at 516,732 acres.
 The area under tea culture in India at the end of 1899 was over 516,732 acres, 65 per cent. of this acreage be- ing in Assam, in the valleys of the Brahamaputra and Surma rivers, 25 per cent. being in Bengal and the oth- CT ten per cent. being divided between the northwest provinces and the Pun jab, in northern India, and Nilgris, Malabar and Travancore, in southern India
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-20
VOTING MACHINES.

After two trials, says the Buffalo Courier, the people of Buffalo will never voluntarily dispense with the voting machine. It has given much satisfaction. By using it we have se- cured a better method of voting than We ever had before, and. what is most important, quick and trustworthy count Those who favor permanent employment of the machine and would encourage it's Introduction in other parts of the state and the country, in which it has not been adopted vet. ought not to ignore or conceal any real defect or mistake in it's use
 The manner in which the voting for presidential electors was done here by means of the machine was unuues- tionably illegal and under different cir cumstancos might have led to serious complications. We do not refer to the fact that there was no possibility for ordinary "splitting'' of the electoral tickets or of voting for electoral candi- dates nominated by different parties in the way in which state and local tick cts are split. There was a more seri- ous defect, not in the machine itself. but in the arrangement made for it's use! The people voted tfor republican Cor. democratic or other1 presidential electors without indicating the names offhese candidates were not expressed. Was there any 'auflority of law for adopting this new and unprecedented manner of voting?
 Supposing the machine had not given the names of the nominees for state offices and the voters had expressed their preference flor the republican candidates for state offices,' not indi- eating their names, or "for the demo- era tic nominee for pOVarnor'' instaad of "John B. Stanchfield." does any well informed person believe that such a vote would have been generally rec ognized as constitutional and valid?
 Fortunately the large maiorities and the decisive general result of the recent presidential election have removed every temptation for a dispute. But if the law remains what it is now. this way of using the machine in voting for electoral candidates ought never to be repeated. We believ that the cleo tion machine. if properly used, will, in the course of a few years. be adopted in all parts of the United States.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-20
A CONSCIOUSLY BOUND

Work of art has just been issued at an outlay of over $1O0,00O. for which the publishers desire a manager in this county, also good solicitor; good pay to the right party. Nearly 100 full page engravings, sumptuous paper, H. Iuminated covers and bindings; over POO golden lilies in the Morocco bind ings; nearly 50 golden roses in 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 acquaint- anees and friends, Write US. It may lead to permanent positionl to man age our business and look after our large correspondence which you can attend tosright at your home. Addrees J. A Knight. secretary. Corc0ran building opposite United States treas- .urY, Washlngtenr D. G ssss
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-20
A COMPLICATED WATCH.

A manufacturing firm of Geneva, Switzerland, have for many years been making a specially of compli- cated timepieces, and a watch recent ly placed on view at the Paris eXpOsi- tion is regarded by them as their high est achievement. In it they have over come problems which were before con- sidered insolvable. and have succeeded in retaining the size of the watch within a convenient limit of a pocket timepiece, namely, twenty Hinges, cor responding with the American eighteen size. But two of these watches have ever been constructed. One of these was purchased direct from the work shop of the firm, to be added to the magnificent watch collection of A. Ponti, the Ce ebrated amateur of Milan, Italy.
 This watch, which has a perpetual calendar, indicating the days of the month, the days of the week. and the phases of the moon, also possesses two separate small dials. upon which are shown automatically for given lati- tude the time of the rising of the sun and the time of it's setting. The diff culty overcome here was great but what comprises the merit of the piece is that. in connection with the min ute hand, which shows the mean time (the time we use), it carries another hand which indicates the suns time, Che true tfme). This hand. moving from the center, as do the hands show, ing the mean time, constantly travels with them and places itself each day at midnight in the position it should occupy in order to indicate for that day the difference between the mean and the true time. The varia ton is very great. being as much as fifteen minutes in one direction or the other. These dates are April 15, June 15, Sep tember 1 and December 25.-Jewelers' Circ1lIar
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-20

A number of the Yale college stu dents are still of the opinion that after q Yale victory they can turn the Elm city inside out. A few of them un- dertook to do this Saturday evening" with the result that about q dozen of them will be landed in the police sta ton. Yesterday morning a few of them were fined, and the cases of the others went over until next week. The faculty of Yale, it is said, intends to expel the guilty ones. It begins to look as if those Yale fellows must walk the straight path, victory or no victory. for the police of New Haven intend to maintain order, and it is said the fac ulty of the college intends to expel every student who makes for himself q police court record
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-20

The freak political obligations are not the only ones that are being wiped out, for it is rumored that the order for Russell B. Harrison's honorable discharge from the volunteer service he has been q lieutenant-colonel of voluntcerS-which was this week is sued by the war department, was in stigated by feeling against his father, cx-President Harrison. for not having been more active in his support of MT Mckinley in the campaign. The req son given was that his services were no longer required, but the fact that other volunteer officers are being sent to the Philippines on every transport prevents it's acceptance by those who think his discharge was a whack at his father.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-20
MoSs-MAD FOLKS IN MAINE.

The latest vagary which the sum- imer visitors have brought to the front in Maine is the erection of wooden cottages having the outside boarding densely coated with a heavy growth of green and gray moss. s
 The abandoned farmhouses were searched for lichened boards, and eX travagant prices were paid for bits of ancient wood that held living speci- meDs of messy growth. Some anxious souls went so far as to peel the moss grown bark from the north sides of beeches and naples and use it for veneer to disguise the newness of the wood inside.
 Early in September when most of the summer visitors had gone moss mad. an old skipper came to the wharf with a load of new boards from the Bangor sawmills. He could not sell stick, though his customers told him they would pay any price for boards that displayed a good crop of moss, the more moss the better.
 "How many of these boards do you want?" asked the captain.
 'All you can get for us-a whole cargo if it is possible
 Don't buy any from other men who offer you messed boards, and wait here two weeks, and if I don't give you all the moss you want I'll let you have this cargo for nothing."
 He hurried his load upon the wharf and was out of sight before the sun had set. Ten days later his schooner came back loaded with aged boards so deeply clad in m6ss that no one but a barber could tell the kind of lumber that supported, tue crop. IT. ,r,,, q
 The boards were piled tpon rross timbers so that the delicate lichens could not be rubbed away. and every piece from the top of the swelling deck load to the Eeelson was matted in rank masses of the plants.
 He sold out his load for three times the price asked for clear pine, and made enough by the trade to buy new schooner.
 After tue money had been paid over and the skipper was ready to go away he told his customers where ne had found so many ancient boards. Near where he lived was an old and povcr- ty-stricken line of railroad. which had lately been leased to q new and wealthy corporation. Among the first Improvements undertaken was to pull down a long stretch of fence that had been put up to keep the snow from drifting across tho rails, and to replace the rotten barrier with something new and more substantial.
 The corporation offered to give the old fence to anybody who would pull it down and take it away. Relieving that the boards were wort bless the captain had laughed at the offer until he came to Cape ROzier and learned of the local passion for moss-clad homes.
 After this he lost no time in closing the trade with the new company. mak- ing more than $20OO out of a cargo of boards that were good for nothing ex- cept firewood and not worth taking down for that purpose.--New York Sun.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-20

It seems that the public is not to be allowed to get on the inside of what ever crookedness there has been in handling Cuban money. in addition to the known stealings of the Neely gang. if the senate committee on relations with Cuba, or rather the republican members of that committee, can pre- vent it, even when there is no cam paign going on to be affected. It was known. and stated in this paper. when the senate ordered this investiga- tion to be made. that the committee would make no pretence even of acting until after the election, but it was not believed that the committee would de cline to act at all. Yet that is what many are now saying and the talk seems to be justified. The committee held a secret meeting, after which Senator Platt. of this state, it's chair man, refused to even allow one of the newspaper men, waiting outside the committee room. to read any of the in formation furnished by the war de- partment, on the expenditures and re- ceipts in Cuba, on the ground that the information was mot complete" and stated that the committee shad ad- journed subject to the call of the chairman. and that he didn't know when there would be another meeting.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-20

How democrats in congress feel to- ward the proposition to reduce south ern representation in congress and in the electoral college, which is being urged by quite a number of republi- cans, may be judged from these re- marks of Senator Money: 'If an at tempt is made to reduce the congress sional representation from the south, I, for one, will be willing to talk from the 3rd day of December to noon on the 4th of March. And it won't be wind, either. It will be a speech worth listening to. I have been pre- pairing for this fight for some time
 If the republicans attempt that reduc- ton. they might as well prepare for an extra session of congress-. They
 will not pass that shipping bill, nor, indeed, anything else in the way of legislation Every democratic sena- tor and representative, who has been in Washington. holds practically the same sentiments that Senator Money ss1ed. Kee1ing rsapblicans. who
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-20

An exchange very truthfully re- marks that if the democratic party is to be reorganized it is not the men who on two occasions helped to defeat it and then gloatcd over their work that should be entrusted with the task. That's why they left the party, be cause they couldn't run it, so they endea vOred to ruin it. Now that it still lives, despite their desertion, they would get back under cover by talking of reorganization.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-20
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1900.

William J. Bryan does not propose to give newspapers and the public generally the benefit of his busy brain hereafter, unless they pay for it. He has just served notice to that effect on the public at large, and that's where he shows his good sense.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-20

The end of the century discussion is now due. and from this time on we may expect to hear it talked and writ ten about to the exclusion of more in tercsting topics. The editor of the Hartford Post throws down the gapnt= let by declaring that the nineteenth century will go out of business in for ty-three days. Don't all speak at once, ., t..,,. ...
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-20

see danger in. the matter, are trying to stop the talk among the small fry about forcing this sort of legislation through congress by reminding them of the republican, .dereat. which fol lowed the attempts to jam the notori- GUS Force bill through congress.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-20
READY LETTER WRITER.

f'No, that young man isn't working here any aore,'' snappede Dodson. What did I discharge him .for? For inattention to business. DO you sup upose that I want any one around here wasting his time writing letters to Darling Tootsie' and Precious Dar- ling?
 ''When my wife went away for her vacation I promised her faithfully to write every day under penalty of buy ing her new gown if I skipped day. We'll, I did for three days. and then I commenced dictating them to my private secretary, who wrole them out for me on his typewriter. The second week told him to go ahead and write them himself. as he knew what to say as well as I did. I believe. I promised to raise his salary if he succeeded in making them models of the letter writ ing art I looked the first few over and found them to be better than if I had written them myself, so I shook hands with him and told him to keep it up.
 sAfter few days I had so much confidence in his letter writing abili- ties that I got in the habit of signing them and sending them to Mrs Dodson without taking the tfouDle TO read them. There was where I made mis- take. but it wouldn't have happened if that young fool had been attending to business The internal idiot has a Darling Tootsie' to whom he writes every day, and he made a mistake and handed me the wrong letter, which promptly signed and sent to my wife.
 That explains why she suddenly cut her vacation short and returned to town. It also explains why that young man no longer works here, and, why the office eat has been, under. ..the safe for three days and still refuses to come out ."-Detroit Free Press.
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Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-20
The Kniser,s Mustnche.

Emperor William has had to aban- don that peculiar curl of the mus tache which has helped to make the kaiser famous because Haby, the in- perial barber and the only man that knew how to do it. has been dismissed for impotence and for trading on the xoyal favor he enjoyed. .a.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-20
Order of Notice.

DISTRICT OF, WATERBURY, PRO- BATE COURT, November +, 1900. ORDERED-That the applicatio oe John J. O'Neill, administrators, to com promise a certain disputed and doubt full claim as appears by the application on file in the Probate Court. be heard and determined at said Probate Court at 10 o'clock in tho forenoon, Noycm- Der 21, 1900, and that notice of the pen dency of the same and of the time and place of hearing thereon be published one time in the Waterbury Evening Democrat before the date Of said, hear ing.
 ROBERT A. LOWE,
 Iudoe.
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-20
HaVen'f Room Or OUrFYOOr For a China CIOsen''

How many times we have heard that statement. To meet that want we have added I number of styles of China Closets or Cabinets to hang on the wall. Go nicely over a register, radiator or couch. Makes q place for a few choice pieces, or for a curio cab inet. Finish is just as good as the larger ones. but they do not cost as much. Will you look at them?
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-20
Register Now
FOR SECOND TERM, BEGINNING
 MONDAY. NOV. 19, AT -4 THE KIMBALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC

All branches of Music taught sys- tematically and thoroughly. Care fully graded courses of study. Spec ial attention is called to the classes for children. In the Musical Kindergar- ten they are interested and advanced each lesson in a wonderful way, and in the Department and Dancing Class es they are taught to carry themselves with an ease and grace which makes life q pleasure to them. Parents are requested to visit these classes. All who are interested in the study of the Violin. Mandolin. Banjo and Guitar should remember that the teachers in
 these departments are thoroughly eX- perienced musicians and fine teachers.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-17

his sword, leaped to the forefront,
called to his men to follow him. and
trusted to their sense of honor not to
desert him in the face of the enemy.
The adoption of the new by laws,
which are printed today in this paper,
is a great step in advance. The by
laws of the FL Paso chamber of COM
merce. as adopted, now have points
of superiority over those of any other
commercial organization with which
the chamber has been in correspond
ence. There are three points of su
periority. One is the provision that alb
sence from meetings of the director
ate three times without adequate ex-
cuse shall in itself operate to forfeit
the Office. which shall be Immediately
filled by the board. Another is the
provision that the president and other
officers shall be elected by the board
by ballot without nominations. The
superiority of this plan was brought
out in a former article.
The greatest improvement of all lies
in the method of electing directors.
Part of this plan has already been ex-
planned, and reference made to its
value. But as finally adopted even
the first suggestion has been improved
upon, and the system as it now stands
and in compliance with which the
coming annual election will be held, is
about perfect. 1t provides for two cleo
lions, primary and a regular, both
to be by ballot, and the choice being
determined solely by the whole mem
bership of the chamber. 1t is as if the
whole membership should be present
at the annual meeting. This is i'm
possible to secure, and the new elector-
al system admirably reaches the diff
Guilty. The outcome ought to be the
selection of a board of directors next
January that will invariably lead the
chamber in all it's activities, that will
inspire confidence and enthusiasm and
that will set a good example to the
members at large by always attending
the meetings of the board and by TAX
ing an active part, personally and Off
cially, in every public movement.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-17
TO ADVERTISERS.

In order to insure proper changes in
advertising, copy for same should
be at the business office not later
than 10 a. m.
ADVERTISING RATES.
Rates of advertising in the Daily
or Weekly HERALD will be made
known upon application at the bus
mess office. Those who prefer can
I have a representative Of the bus
mess department call upon them,
who will quote prices and make
contracts for space Call telephone
No. lis.
Classified advertisements for locals, ten
Q0c) cents per line for nrst in
sertion and five (5c) cents for each
. additional insertion. Special rates
upon five hundred (500) or one
thousand QO00) lines of local. to
be used in one month, will be fur
nished upon application.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-17
SOME FACTS ABOUT THE
HIGH SCHOOL SITE.
To The Herald:

To The Herald:
| AS an offset to the fierce attacks
made upon the school board by the
/ morning paper it might be well tC
state a few facts in regard to the
| transaction, which the paper referred
unfair to explain.
First. The site selected is not in the
foothills but the entire block is as
level as a floor and no handsomer To-
cation could be found in the city.
While at the present time it it is on the
outskirts. in the course of a few years
it will occupy almost the exact geo.
graphical center of the residence por-
tion of the city by reason of the rapid
building up of that portion.
Second. The price paid was not ex-
horbitant. The site consisted of an
entire block of twenty lots and the
total cost was $4,000 or an average of
$500 per lot Some of these lots sold
as low as $500 while one brought
81 700. which price includes a good six
room brick cottage which could not in
all probability be duplicated at this
price anywhere in the city.
1t is true that a block 90 lots)
was offered in this same vicinity for
So, OOO But to secure the other half
of the same block would have cost
Sc. 66O-or a total of $9.6O0-or $1,000
more than was paid by the board. To
say that a half block would be suffi-
cient is to speak without knowledge of
the facts.
In buying this site the school board
was evidently governed by desire to
provide for the future needs Of
growing city. Where then, could a
site have been secured for an equal
amount of money, better adapted to
the present as we'll as the prospective
demands of our school population.
This block is about equi-distant be-
tween Franklin Heights on the east
and Sunset Heights on the west and it
requires no argument to show that
these will become our great residence
sections in the near future, not to
speak of the rapid growth in the i'm
mediate vicinity of the selected site.
F. w. B.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-17

England is having a terrible scare
over her beer. Three hundred deaths
and three thousand illnesses have been
reported as due to arsenical poisoning
in the beer and twenty-five thousand
barrels of beer have been emptied into
the streets. The fatalities so far have
all occurred in the vicinity of Manches-
ter, but London has the scare badly
and is leaving off its beer and ale
drinking and in consequence English
brewers are getting excited. 1t is
brewing materials than malt and hops.
produces che poison.