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Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-20

continent. IL was Stanley. who found the source of the white Nile, who ex- plored the shores of Lake Tanganyika, a body of water over 400 miles in length; Lake Victoria Nyanza, Lake Albert NYanza and a score of others that are to-day the home of the steam boat, and around whose shores are to be found many evidences of advancing civilization. To Stanley and to James Gordon Bennett must be given much of the credit for the exploitation of this territory from which England is to-day building new empire.
 But this African empire does not all lie around these great fresh water seassthat are so intimately connected with the history of Livingstone and Stanley. Farther south, and yet al- most in the very center of the conti- nent lies British or Central Africa and Rhodesia or British South Africa, both of which are forging to the front in the race for supremacy between the newer of Britain's African colonies. British East Africa, which extends from the shores of the Indian ocean for a distance of a thousand miles right into the center of the continent, contains more than 1,00O, 1000 square miles of territory with population of two and a half millions of people, of which less than 1000 are Europeans. Still further into the center of the continent, and adjoining British East Africa, lies Uganda, with its 10000 square miles of fertile soil, and 3,0O0,- 900 of people. Through this territory the railroad from the coast has been extended, and valuable commerce in ivory, cattle, wild coffee and rubber is being rapidly developed. Both of these colonies are attracting the at tention of British emigrants, and there is an increasing stream of Eu-. ropeans seeking new homes and for tunes in them. The day is not far dis tant when they will number among their population a considerable per centage of Europeans.
 As Livingston and Stanley are the prominent figures in the early explor- ation and exploitation of British East Africa and Uganda, so Cecil Rhodes is the prominent figure in the exploita- tion of British South Africa or Rho desia, though entirely different mo- tives actuated the men operating in the two localities. Livingston was the explorer and the missionary, and above all the missionary. While, like e faithful servant, he sought for such geographical information as would be of benefit to the government which at first employed him, his greatest de- sire was to carry the Gospel of Christ to the natives of the Dark Continent. Stanley followed him. not to take up
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-20

of the many cases of glass flowers in the Ware collection of Harvard uni versity, i'll Cambridge. This collec- ton, the only one of it's kind in the world, is the work of the famous .Blaschka family, father and son.
 It was begun at the suggestion of Dr. Goodale, of the university, to whom it first occurred that the skill of these rcmarka be artists could be applied as we'll to flowers as to the models of marine inverte brates which they were then, in 1886, making for. the museums of Europe, and secured to Harvard through the generosity of. Mrs. Eliza beth c. Ware and Miss Mary l.. Ware, of Boston. The collection, growing with each succeeding year, is intended to represent the relations of the various Towering plants of North America, and onc-quarter of a large easel now devoted to q typical collection of lsectivorous plants.
 The Venus y-trap secretes an acid fluid that aid the decomposition of it's victim. he leaf on opening is found to have lost it's treacherous sensitiveness. Thls, however, soon re- turns; yet if the leaf has been forced to close over some object that cannot nourish the plant, such as a particle of earth placed on it for the sake of experiment, it remains closed no longer than 24 A urs, and upon open ing is still. sensitive and immediately ready for it's delayed meal
 The Sarracenia purpurea, found often in the month of June in peat bogs, from New England to Mime sota, northeast Iowa, kand southward, east to the Alleghanies, is known commonly as the side saddle flower, the pitcher plant or the huntsman's cup. The latter names are more de- scriptivs of it's appearance, and it is difficult indeed te see any resem- blance in it's purple flower and pitch CT shaped green leaves to anything nearer side saddle than the pillions of our ancestors. But whatever name it is+called it is a notable example of the carniyorous plants and is repre- sented by striking model in the Harvard collection Y. Herald.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-20
WATERFOWL JoTTINGS
Saturday Ball Game Postponed on Ac-
 count of Rain.

Saturday Ball Game Postponed on Ac-
 count of Rain.
 The game between the Taft team and the Blackhall team for Saturday was postponed owing to rain. Services at the churches yesterday. K. N. Deland's play entitled Mike Dunn's Vacation will be given at the town hall on Friday evening This play is taken from the Ladies' Home Journal bringing out MT Dooley and other characters connected with him. The cast, which consists of about if teen people, is good one, and deserves a large house on Friday night An other rehearsal will be given to-mor- row evening, and it is hoped that every member will be present. Dancing will be indulged in after the performance. Admittance D cents. Reserve seats 35 cents.
 A Concert.
 A. w. Skilton, teacher of the local singing school, will give concert at the town hall tomorrow evening. Dur ing the past winter he has been in- structing class who will furnish the entertainment.
 Up to Saturday night nothing had been heard from Abraham Ineson since his departure on Tuesday His son has been in New York during the past few days, and has detectives search ing for him.
 May devotions will be held at 7:3O each evening of this week at St Johns church.
 A letter addressed to Mrs Vincent Whitney, No 7S Clifford sreet, is held at the post office for better address. George Grant and Joseph Kielty en- joyed nights fishing at Smiths pond last week.
 Mir Guenther of New York was a guest at Michael Kielty's over Sunday. A class of eight received their first communion at St Johns church yes terday morning. Mass was celebrated at S:30 a. m.
 John Beatty has severed his connec ton with the Waterbury Manufactur- ing company.
 Charles. Buckingham was home from Yale over Sunday.
 One of Scoville's cows died last week from milk fever.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-20
England Ls BuildIng . Nez0 Empire iu A111ca The Railroad Train Now Common Sight in Uganda
 and Rhodesa

his missionary labors, but to take up his work as an explorer where his friend had left it, and accomplish, Il possible, what Livingston had failed to-the discovery of the sources ofthe Nile and the Congo rivers. Neither were interested particularly in the commercial exploitation of the terri. tory.
 When Cecil Rhodes began his exten- sive operations and colonization in the territory that now bears his name, il was with sinister motive. Rhodes had tried several schemes for the weakening of the Transvaal. He was ambitious to make all of South Africa English, and the Transvaal govern. ment, with the financial aid secured from the Johannesburg gold mines was gaining in strength so rapidly that Rhodes feared they would sooE pass beyond the need of England'a help. It was with a view of ent1cina the Boer farmers from their own land by liberal land grants in the new ter. ritory, and at the same time gaining undisputed possession for England oi that great stretch of territory lying in the heart of the continent, and upon which England, Germany and Portu. gal, with adjoining possessions, were looking with longing eyes and hoping for an opportunity to invade 1t and take possession.
 It was Cecil Rhodes who made the opportunity; it was Rhodes who or ganized the company that was to push English colonists into the very center of the coveted territory; it was Rhodes who bought of the savage chieftain, Lo Bengula, the native ruler of the territory, the treaty rights to enter the country and exploit it, rights
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-20
HARDLY WORTH KNOWING.

It takes the ash of 100 cigars td make one ounce of cigar-ash.
 There are 27 railway tunnels in England over one mile long.
 Seventy three per cent. of ships. en- tering British ports fly the national flag.
 It is estimated that the men of Great Britain spend a25o,o00 year' on silk hats.
 London eats 1so.oo tons a year of fsh-rSore than ha4i the fish caught by British ships.
 Thirty years since newspapers were not known in Japan. Now there are over TOO periodicals, nearly 100 of which are Christian.
 Thirty thousand tons of writing paper year and 15o miles a day of wallpaper is, tLe output of the larg- est paper factory in the world.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-20
INSECT-EATING PLANTS.
There Is Quite Number of Them, But the Venus Fiy-Trap Is the
 NOst Voraci0us.

Nearly every body has read or heard of the Venus hy-trap the Dionaea muscipula of scientific botany and of the extraordinary sensitiyeness of it's leaves, so dellcately constructed that if fly or insect lights upon one tho leaf closes upon itself and so im- prisons the unhappy insect, killing and actually eating it, for that the insect really nourishes the plant has been shown by comparative study. Deprived of it's insect food it fails al- ways to attain it's best development.
 The Venus hy-trap is only one out of number of insectivorous plants, a careful study of which has recently been made by Dr. rowler, professor of botany in Queens college, Ontario, and which receive even more practical illustration in one of the most inter- esting, from a popular point of views
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-20

NUT of the heart of Africa Eng o land is building an empire that
 will in time rival in extent her vast possessions in Asia, America or Australia. In almost the same terri tory where third of century ago .Dr. Livingston, the English mission .ary and explorer, was cut off from the outside world by horde of savages, and where the American Henry NJ. Stanley found him after a perilous Journey through the tropical forests tand jungles, the passage of railroad trains and steamboats are daily oc- currences. Steamboats are running on Lake Albert Nyanza, around which Is located so much of modern Central African history. Other steamers are plying between the principal native villages around t:se shores of Lake Victoria Nyanza, and all of them are flying the union jack at their mast heads The negro that ten years ago formed the only means of conveyance for merchandise between the eastern ports and the vast territory lying about the headwaters of the Nile and Congo rivers have given place. to the railroad train.
 Here is vast territory that has for centuries been lying on the very verge Of civiliza tion, and yet it has not, until within the last third of a century and less, felt the least of it's influences.
 It was Stanley, at that time an American citizen, who undertook the exploration of this vast territory that England is to-daydevelCping so rapid ly, at the point where Livingstone had left of at the time of his death. It was Stanley's explorations that first gave to the world a right conception of this great central portion of the African
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-20
LITTLE LITERARY MATTERS.

Philip James Bailey, the author of "Festus," published in 1889, is still alive and recently attained his eighty fifth year. Among the books that no body has read 'Festus'' slperhaps the most famous.
 Algernon Charles Swinbarne, the poet, celebrated his sixty-fourth birth day in London recently. During the day he received over 500 letters and telegrams of congratulations from all parts of the world.
 The kaiser is stated to have just put the finishing touches to treatise on the caPtSre of the Taku forts by the powers. He is also credited wsth having compiled studies in various periods in the history of Germany, Austria and France.
 Thackeray, anxious to enter parlia- ment, stood for Oxford, thinking he might win the seat from Lord Moncll who then represented it. Meeting his opponent in the street one day, he shook hands with him, had a little talk over the situation, and took leave ot him with the quotation: May the best man win. ''I hope not, said Lord Monck, very cordially, with kind lit tie bow.
 What author of to-day would sac rifice 2 5000 to preserve what he con siders the artistic unity of his book? Yet George Murray Smith offered George Eliot e1o,o00 for ''Romola," ," with the privilege of breaking it into 16 installments. She decided that method would spoil the story artistic ally, and insisted upon 12installments, accepting e7,000. She thus sacrificed about $1o,ooo to scruple.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-20
Cat Adopts Two Rnbbit@-

Down ID Marion, Ind, Mrs. Amanda Trandon has cat that is just now at Pussy is the mother of two little kit tens and she has adopted two mother less rabbits that she is caring for in a motherly way She does. not seem to discriminate between the rabbits and the kittens, but treats them all with kindness. The rabbits have ac- eepted her as their adopted mother and seem to appreciate her care. The kittens and rabbits play together and altogether seen to be happy family.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-20
0AKVILLE HAPPENINGS

Miss Bertha Forest of Bradleyville and Mrs Jennie Forest spent Sunday in this place.
 R. M. Babin of Derby spent Sunday in this village.
 Mrs Henry Joy and Hazel Joy of Westside Hill, Waterbury, spent Fri day irs this place, the guest of Miss Lilly Kane
 Arthur Parft of New Britain is spending a few. days in this place.
 Miss Lena Hartman has just return ed from few days visiting in New York city.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-20
Trrth VIII ost.

A bookstan clerk at big London terminus was recently deputed to write label for bundle of detective stories. The label was. duly written and affixed to the books. 1t was then discovered that intending purchasers were informed that the books consist ed of s.Detectiye stories by well-knoWn writers.''-London Globe.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-20
The Gentle BegEar.

ssI'm hungry, sir" said the beggar. Wont you give me enough to get a mea1?"
 s'Here, my good man. said Mr. Pompus, here's a penny for you.''
 70! thank you, sir. By the way, have you got pepsin tablet about you? I always get dyspepsia when I overeat myself. "-Ph Philadelphia Press.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-20
HERE ARE THREE SPECIAL VALUES EASILY WORTH $2ooo.

Eton Suits made of fine homespuls, in grey and Oxford, trimmed with braid and buttons, Jacket silk lined, skirt is seven gore fare percane lined and easily worth double this sepcial price. bfoadcloth and one serge, each trimmed with straps of tafeta and silk, soutace braid seven gore skirts with flare, fine quality percaine lined. Jack cts taffeta lined. (Both these size 38.) Former price SI7.75.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-20

The basis of most indelible inks is the ordinary nitrate of silver.
The age-herald., 1901-04-28
Mir. Bryan Not a Candidate.

With his accustomed clearness of vision, and his accustomed love of country and of the Democratic party, MT. Bryan withdraws his name from use in the race of 1904, asking the De- mocracy to select another standard bearer. If he were expecting third nomination he says he would not be editing a paper" He sees, in other words, the vulnerability of man who is expressing his views in wholesale lots every week.
 MT. Bryan's withdrawal is charac- teristic of the man. He puts principle before personalism. He sinks self when the party he has served so long and faithfully needs the sacrifice. He sees that new man is needed in 1904, and he promptly makes room for him. This action should commend MT. Bryan to the party, and the time will come when his unselfshness and de- votion will be rewarded. For MT. Bryan is yet a young man.
 MT. Bryan appeals to all Democrats to forget the past, and to come to- gether in order that under new leader they may restore the country to constitutional principles and just rule. This appeal for union upon Democratic principles should be needed and observed. All Democrats are needed now, and not one should be rejected who accepts Democratic principles.
The age-herald., 1901-04-28
The Rodent and the Cat.

From the Lowndes News.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald wants to know If the rodents are destroyed, what will become of the cats?' They will have a picnic on what the rats and mice used to destroy. There are very few China menAcats, and most of the American va rieties of the genus Domo-Felis are as afraid of rodents as women are. It is as slanderous and heathenish as untrue to say that good tame civilized Occidental house cats eat rats. On the other hand. they seem no longer to even find sport in catching them. Only the gramallSin that glares wild at you from the cob webby loft of the barn as you grope your way through the musty dark and weevils up the creaky ladder, or the tom cat, semi-taned specimen. of wild and weird voice, that dozes In the rank weeded fence corner or thicket hard by during the day and plays varied variations in every bodys back yard by night--"these are them" that catch mice for meat, but the 'lady cat' of the rug or hearth corner never!
The age-herald., 1901-04-28
More Pronunciation Troubles.

No sooner had the purists taken the telephone girls to task for saying ought" when they should xsay "naught" or at the freest "aught," meaning a cipher-no sooner had this matter been put right than a new diff ficulty presented itself in pronuncia- tion, and it was freely stated that the real test of correctness in the use of the English language was to be found in the pronunciation of the charming word, girl" To pronounce it as if written "gurp was declared to be proof beyond hope of ignorance in the use of the mother tongue, and all who thus pronounce the word were cast into the mass that employ impure English in expressing their thoughts.
 It seems that the word must be pro- nounced as if spelt "gerl," and that those who make it rhyme with, "curl" and the like are beyond recovery. They are hopelessly vulgar. The Interna- tioal, the Standard and the, Century all give the pronunciation as "gerl." The dictionaries are lined up against "garl," and the purists declare it an abomination beyond expression.
 Common and long-continued usage is losing it's power. for the word in ques- tion has been pronounced as if spelt gurr' from time out of mind, but the language sharps or experts now say that usage is altogether out of line while they themselves are wholly cor
The age-herald., 1901-04-28
Mays Great Festival.

Birmingham's third annual music festival which begins next Tuesday night will easily surpass in general attractiveness and artistic value either the first or the second; for the chorus is larger and better than ever, and Theodore Thomas magnificent orches- tra will be heard instead of the Boston band, which was employed. for the former occasion.
 The engagement of Thomas means much larger outlay of money of course, but the financial result prom ises to be far better. There had been enough tickets sold yesterday, or nearly enough, to defray all expenses. but the demand should continue until every seat Is reserved. The public library is to be the beneficiary, and every dollar over $32O0 received for admission to the concerts will go to that worthy institution. The people of Birmingham should show their pub lie spirit and crowd the Auditorium both Tuesday and Wednesday.
 The management wisely fixed the price of reserved seats at the moderate price of one dollar. But those who do not care to pay one dollar can find a comfortable seat in the gallery for fifty cents. Two packed houses will mean $500 for the library.
The age-herald., 1901-04-28
TROOPERS PARADE.
Native Mounted Men Reviewed in
 Porto Rico.

San Juan, Porto Rico, April N. = A mounted battalion of native troopers pa- raded here today and were reviewed by Lieut.. Col. James A. Buchanan, of the Fifteenth Infantry. This was the first public exhibition given by the troops out side of their home barracks at Cayey. Their evolutions and formal conventions were wonderfully precise, and their drill compares favorably with that of the American regular soldiers.
 Manuel Arguezos who failed for $350, 900 will probably be able to re-establish him self in business. Senor Arguezos is one of the largest commission houses in Hu- macao. The assets of the firm have not yet been made known, but 1t is believed they are sufficient to meet all liabilities. Other failures are expected and their cause Is attributed to the stringency of money. This was the reason of Senor Ar guezos' failure.
 Bankers here estimate the per capita circulation of money in Porto Rico at about s2.
The age-herald., 1901-04-28
A CONFEDERATE NOTE.

By John B. Cooke.
 Representing nothing on Gods earth now, And naught in the waters below it, As the pledge of a nation that passed
 away,
 Keep it. dear friend, and show 1t: Show it to those who will lend an ear To a tale this trifle will tell Of liberty born of patriots dream, Of a storm-cradled nation that fell Too poor to possess the precious ores, And too much of stranger to borrow, We issued today our promise to pay. And hope to redeem on the morrow. The days rolled on. and weeks became years, eer But our coffers were empty still; Coin was so scarce that the treasury
 quaked
 If a dollar should drop in the till, But the faith that was in us was strong.
 indeed. Though our poverty well we discerned; And this little check represents the pay, That our suffering veterans earned They know 1t had hardly value. in gold, / Yet as gold our soldiers received 1t; It gazed in our eyes with promise to z And every true soldier believed it But our boys thought little of price or
 pay, ft We knew if 1t brought our bread today, erwas the best our poor country could
 do. Keep it! It tells all our history over. From the birth of our dream till It's
 last;
 Modest and born of the Angel Hope, Like our hope of success. 1t passed.
The age-herald., 1901-04-28
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THE MURMUR OF THE WORLD.

Her laughter bubbled like that of a little child; it rippled and rolled and rung in the divinest melody ever heard upon this earth-childhoods glee come to echo across the line where womanhood holds sway in purity and in joy! She skipped along, she glided and she Ioitered, and he! why, he, strong in his strength, yet humble and adoring in her presence, skip ped and glided and loitered. according to her own imperious will She was trans figured in the speeding glow of the spring time spirit, in the fading gloaming of day that was divine, and he adored the transfiguration.
 She was joy incarnated, and he became a part of her overfiowing joyousness. He spoke some sentiments, and she, hear ing them full well, bade him speak them again. She seemed to soar. Her little feet did but touch the earth, which she seemed to disdain in making for the stars. She smiled and laughed, frowned and banter ed, and once or twice she winked with exasperating consciousness of his. idola- try. He held it no sin to worship that embodiment of youth and truth, lovliness and saintly purity. Thus they fared for ward in the gloaming.
 
 The splendor and beauty of all this are yours and mine, my beloved.
 It is the glory of truth and of purity, love and life, youth, manhood, woman hood, middle-life, old age! It is the truth of 1t all, the eternal verities, that make up our own, and that make the world to ring with gladness and sweet song.
 It is self-sacrifice and the love of oth- CTS for themselves, not for ourselves. that make this life worthy of the life to be. In the spirit of 1t comes the glad songi Lead Kindly Light, lead Thou me on!
 THE MURMURER.