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Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-15

Senator Bacon said of the dangerous power vested in the president by the army reorganization bill, which is still before the senate: ''The passage of this bill will mark an epoch in the United States. Senators may scoff, but it is nevertheless true that the passage of bill by which the presi- dent shall control the size of the army is march toward empire. It is q great revolution that will be effected when the bill is put upon the statute books. It is the evident purpose of the bill to eliminate for all time the volunteer system from the military establishment of the country. and ere ate for all time a great standing army. The issue is not to be evaded. Shall it be in the future the province of the president to raise armies, or shall it be the province of congress? I should rather see the party I belonged to con- demned to universal and never ending punishment from political power, than to see such an authorization of power placed upon the statute books'
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-15
AN AMERICAN MUNCHAUSEN

One hears some good stories in the Bowery shooting galleries when busi- ness is slack, says Forest and Stream. Here is one Oklahoma Bill repeats, as told by Tom Black. ''Tom." Bill pre- faces, was the greatest hunter and trapper of his day, and he was the big gest liar that ever trod in shoes. The following is one of his lies.
 "'One day l was out huntin' and I was tired and sot down to rest. rite along the edge of the Missouri river, and I looked up and saw sixteen h. juns comin' down the river in q canoe. I knowed if they got hold of me they would scalp me, so jist waited till they got about twenty-five yards off. I was layin' down behind stump, and I raised my rife and let go at 'em and as soon as the others heard the shot and seen six of their party fall dead, they seen my head stickin' up behind the stump, and they made for the shore and started for me with their warwhoops. I was jist a little skeered when I looked up and seen there was just ten of lem, so when they got up to me I went at 'em with the butt of my rife and killed five more of lem; then dropped my rife and went at lem with my fists; the other three got hold of me and throwed me down right close to the edge of the river. so got hold of one of them and held his head in the edge of the river, and with my other hand held another by the throat and I kicked at the third one with both feet. I kept this up for about twenty minutes, and then I tainted away. and when I came to I saw the one I held fin the edge of the river was drowned and the one held by the throat was choked to death, and the one I kicked was still alive, so I took my huntin' knife and fin- ished him. tell you, boys, that was the worst fight ever had with the Injuns.'"
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-15
4 PREpICTION IrNJUSTIFIABLE

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 Pretty soon Connecticut will be known as the divorce state. - Water bury Democrat.
 The soil of fact in which to grow such conclusion is lacking. The amount of divorce in comparison with the output of matrimony in Connect- cut is a declining quantity. If our perturbed contemporary will take the time and trouble to examine the di- vorce and nuptial statistics of the state during the past forty years it will find that the tendency has been toward a decreasing ratio of divorces to mar riages. Of course, temporary f1uctua- tions have occurred, but the line has been falling and not a rising one. For instance, from 1860 to 1880 the marriages were on the average be- tween eleven and twelve times as nu- merous as the .divorces, but during the past few years the altar mas had be- tween fifteen and sixteen times as much to do as the divorce courts. Take apart. In 1868 .o divorces, which | represented one divorce to every 9.9 marriages, were granted, while in 1898, just thirty years later. 429 divorces, or one divorce to every 15.3 weddings, were recorded.
 We well might wish that the divorce business in Connecticut was less pros porous, but it is we'll to remember that the prosperity is receding and that the industry is relatively much less active here than in most states.--Hartrord Post.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-15
BARTER OF AMERICAN GIRLS
 AND DOLLARS FOR TITLCS.

Tho Freeman's Journal of Dublin. referring to the marriage of Miss Hel- ena Zimmerman. a wealthy AmericaE girl to an English duke, makes the following interesting comments:
 Needless to say, this peculiar form of Anglo-SaXon alliance is very pre- valent and very popular i'll England. Indeed, it runs on exactly the same lines as the proposed political alliance, about which the English enthused so disinterestedly. The Americans are invited for mcretricious sen ntiment to sacrifice substantial practical advan- tages. The British raid on American heiresses has been singularly success full. The Duke of Marlborough has re- built the family home and fame with American dollars. There are scores of others only less famous than the duke. The penniless members of the British nobility regularly invade the States in search of rich wives. That is not so much to be wondered at. To work they are not able. to beg they are ashamed; so if they are to live at all they are reduced to living on their wives property. It seems a fine pro- fession, that of American heiresses. provided the man has the one requisite for SucceSS-a title.
 Why Americans makes these bar agins is a question to which there is really no answer. They are the most democratic people on the face of the earth. Hereditary nobility is a sub- ject supposed to be most repellent to them. Why do their women folk want titles? Six millions hard cash seems rather tall order to pay for this i'm palpable title, to which Falstaff's dis paraging monologue regarding honor would upoct rtic,1l1r rly nnnlv Miss Helena Zimmerman will not eat more heartily nor sleep more soundly from being called duchess. These gaudy flowers which the girls are so anxious to cull and wear, as rule. nave grown out of the mud. The Duke of Grafton, to take a single example, which comes specially home to Dublin CTS. exists today because certain an cestress was no better than she ought to be. If she had proved virtuous there never would have been q Duke of Grafton. Yet the title so created is worth 96,OOOOOO or thereabouts in the American matrimonial market.
 What are we to say to the conner clal minded lords and dukes who hawk their coronets and strawberry leaves round the United States of America with q keen eye out for the highest bid? They are assuredly wise in their generation and patriotic when they carry the plunder back to Eng land.
 Let laws and learning, arts and com
 merce die,
 We still can sell our old nobility at a round sum in hard cash. The world has not forgotten what fuss there was in Paris about the selling of titles and decorations. The fortune hunting noblemen i'll the States make a trade-the only trade they could un- derstand-of selling titles and decora- tions. and no one thinks penny the worse of them for that. It Is the main duty in life of q penniless British mo- bleman to marry an American heiress and live happy ever after.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-15
WATERBURY FIRE ALARM.

WATERBURY FIRE ALARM.
 4-Cor South Main and Grand sts.
 5-Scovill Manufacturing Go. P).
 6-Cor Bridge and Magill sts.
 7-Exchange Place. 12-Rogers & Bro. (P):
 73 Cor East Main and Niagara sts 14LCor East Main and Wolcott I'd. 15-Cor High and Walnut sts.
 16-Cor East Main and Cherry sts. 17-Cor East Main and Cole sts. 2l-Cor North Elm and Kingsbury sts 2s-Burton Street engine house. 24-Waterbury Manufacturing Co. (P> 25-Cor North Main and North s.s 26-Cor Buckingham and Cooke sls.s o7-Cor Grove & Prospect Sts. oS-Cor Hillside avenue and Pine st. 29-N. Willow bet. Ridgewood and
 Hillside avenue.
 s1-Cor Bank and Grand sts. .rs 32-Cor Riverside and Bank sts. s4-Cor West Main and Watertown I'd 3@Conn. Light'g & Pow. Co, car
 house, (P). 36-Waterbury Brass Co. (P. 37-Cor Cedar and Meadow sts. 38-Cor Grand and Field sts.
 4o-Cor South, Main and Clay sts. 43-New England Watch Go. P). 45.Benedict & Burnham Mfg Co. (P) 46-Waterbury Buckle Go. (Pl. 47-Cor s. Main and Washinton sts. 51-Cor Baldwin and River sts. 52-Cor Franklin and Union sts. 53-Wat'by Clock Go. case fact'y (P). 54-Cor Clay and Mill sts.
 56-Cor Liberty and River sts.
 57-No Hose House.
 52-Cor Baldwin and Stone sts. 62-Cor Doolittle alley and Dublin st. 7o-Cor West Main and Willow sts. 74-Cor Johnson and Waterville sts.. 212-The Platt Bros &s Go. tP). Buckle Co. (P). 214-Wat'b'y Clock Go, mvt fact'y (P). 216-Cor North Main and Grove. sts. 261-Cor Round Hill and Ward sts. o61-Junction Cooke and N. Main sts. 272-Grove. bet. Central & Holmes avs. 911-S. N. D. Telephone Go bldg. ,(P). 312-Cor Bank and Meadow sts. & Cloves. (p) 314EPlume and Atwood (P). 316-American Ring Go (P). 3l6-Electric Light Station (P). 31S-Holmes, Booth 6 Haydeus nJ. 321-No 1 Hose House. 32S-Cor ,Eash'g'n ave and Porter sta 3o4-Cor Charles and Porter sts. 825-Cor Simons st and Wash'C'n ave. 811-City Lumber and Coal Co P). ,412-Tracy Bros (P).
 Ie1--steele 6 Johnson Mfg Co p1. Goe Cor Baldwin and Rye sts.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-15
THE ENGINEERS HEARING.

tI see that the big liner St Paul lost one of her propellers through the shaft snapping on during tfie last trip across" said a former sea captain, now ill business here. The strain put on a propeller shaft in any large vessel is something frightful, and it has to have extraordinary strength to withstand it. The worst part of it is when the stern lifts out of water during a pitch. Then the propeller blades have nothing to play against except air, and, naturally, they begin to race. While they are whizzing around at top speed they souse into the water again, and you can imagine the shock! 1t makes the whole ship tremble like scared horse. If there is the slightest flaw in the shaft it is apt to snap off like piece of glass.
 II remember before I quit the sea-" continued the ex-captain, "1 was once first officer on fine cargo tramp from Liverpool. Our chief engineer was an old Welshman named Dawes. He was a rough old fellow, with mighty little of what you might call book education but if ever there was q natural born genius he was the man. Engineering g seemed to be kind of an instinct with him. and when there was any trouble
 with the machinery he could put his finger on the exact spot, where another
 man might be puttcring around for q day. At the time have in mind we had l cleared from our home port with 3 mixed cargo for Rio and on thc second
 day out old Dawes all of q sudden stopped her engines. It was my watch
 and went below to find out what was | up. There's something wrong with tbat propeller shaft said he, al.d he took i q lantern and started to go over it, inch by inch. Inside an hour he found two , holes that had been bored in it about i midway down. where the strain was | greatest, end nicely filled up With soap and plumbago. 1t was evidently the | work of an assistant engineer who had
 a row and quit at Liverpool. Any big shock would have been certain tc
 break the shaft in two, but, hs Provi i dence willed it, we had smooth weath,
 CT up to that time. Dawes riveted q steel collar around the weak spot and
 we made Rio without accident, under | about three-fourths speed.
 l Il often asked him afterward how 1 he came to suspect anything was
 wrong and all he could tell me was that the shaft sounded rotten. l sup pose there was some false note in the vibration; either that or it was the big
 gest piece of luck on record. New Orleans Times-Democrat
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-15
HEARD IN PASSING

Novelist F. Hopkinson Smith can not add to his reputation as a scholar by putting q low estimate upon Uncle Toms Cabin.''' That book has won it's place, and is not likely to be disturbed by what any one may now say of it.-Norwich Bulletin.
 A Brooklyn man is suing for divorce because his wife insisted upon the dogs af the household sharing his bed. He did not object to a little pug, but when big St Bernard showed him on the floor the henpecked gentleman thought it. was time for the worm to do q turn.-Hridgeport Post.
 What is the object of the publica-
 ton by Alfred Vanderbilt. in all the
 New York payers to-day of list of
 himself and his bride? Is it to let all
 the world see that nothing came from
 his brother Cornelius, but that all
 his other relatives sent gifts? In this instance a large amount of pub
 licity does not seem to be diSagreea ble
 to those members of the Vanderbilt family who are assembled for the wedding festivities in NewpOrt.-Hart- ford Times.
 .,The Baltimore Herald very unkind- ly takes Lord Kitchener down from his pedestal beside the great com
 man1ers and compares him to General Banks of Civil War fame. Banks cer- tainly was not Napoleon. During the Civil Wal,'' says the Herald, ''it was q favorite saying that General Banks was the comnaissary general to Stone wall Jackson's army. It looks as if Kitchener is now serving in the same capacity to De Wet.'"-New Haven Union. K
 Under the reapportion bill which has passed both houses, Connecticut will secure another representative. The bill provides that districts shall
 be ssco1nposed of contiguous and com
 pact territory" and contain ''as near ly as practicable m equal number of inhabitantx," and that the additional representative shall be elected by the state at large" until the legislature shall redistrict the state. No time limit for redistricting is provided. and thus the additional representative may
 be chosen at large Indefinitely. The bill provides against "gerrymander- ipg," but ssnchs provisions are usually possible of eyasion.-Bridgeport IsFarme-.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-15

Selectman Doran has kept his word with the people by making public the doings of the selectmen's office for the first quarter of his term, which ended December 31. The report printed in yesterdays Democrat is worth read ing and comparing with former ex- penditures Selectman Doran has shown q decrease over that of last year, notwithstanding that there was a large outstanding debt to be wiped out. If this sort of economy is kept up during the rest of his term, the people will insist on continuing MT Doran in office, at least until the con- solidation bill abolishes his position.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-15
Departure and Arrival or Trains.
NAUGATUCK DIVISION.

Trains leave Bank Street Station for New York, Bridgeport, New Haven and other places at 6:35; SIP; 1O:5O a. m., 1:2S; PAS; 4:45; o:O5; COS and 700 D. ID. The p. m. is q mixed train.
 Trains arrive at Bank Street Sta tion from New York. Bridgeport, New Haven and way stations at S:36; 9:12; HIP a. m.; Ill; 3:5G; G:2o; G:oS; 800 D. m.; 1:2S a. m.
 Trains leave Bank Street Station for Winsted and way stations at S:3S; 11:14 a. m.; 3:5S and TOO p. m.
 Trains arrive at Bank Street Sta tion from Winsted and way stations at SIP; 1O:5O a. m.; PAS; eos p. m. Trains leave Bank Street Station for Watertown and way stations at 6:45; S:41: 11:17 q. m.; 80; 4:O1; 500; G:12; 7:O3; 9:O5 and 11:20 F. m.
 Trains arrive at Bank Street Station from Watertown and way stations at 6:25; 500; 1O:4O a. m.; l :O2: 2:35; 4:4O; 5:o2; CAT; 7:54; 1:1S D. III.
 Sunday Trains.
 Leave Bank Street Station for New York, Bridgeport and New Haven at 7:1o a. m. and 5:25 p. m.
 Arrive at Bank Street Station from New York, Bridgeport and New Ha- ven at 9:3S a. m. and 1:55 D. m.
 Leave Bank Street Station for Wa tertown and way stations at 9:43 q. ID. and 500 D. m.
 Arrive at Bank Street Station from Watertown and way stations at 6:5S a. Ill. and 5:12 p. m.
 HIGHLAND DIVISION.
 Trains leave Meadow Street Station for Boston, Hartford and way stations at TOO and S:3S a. m.; 12:3S; 4:O5; S:O7 D. ID.
 Trains arrive at Meadow Street Sta tion from Boston, Hartford and way stations at S:O5; 40 a. m.; :5O; 5:13 and 7:45 p. m.
 Trains leave Meadow Street Station for New York, Fishkill Landing, Dan- bury and way stations at SI3 a. m. and l 50 and 5:1S p. m.
 Trains arrive at Meadow Street Sta ton from New York, Fishkill Landing. Danbury and way stations at S:36 a. m.; 12:34 and S:O4 D. m.
 Sunday Trains
 Leave Meadow Street Station at S:3O: Il 80 a. m.; 5:3O p. m.
 Arrive at Meadow Street Station at 1920 q. m.: 2:1S and ?:2O D. ID.
 MERIDEN BRANCH.
 Trains leave Dublin Street Station for Middletown and way stations at $50 a. m. and 6:15 p. m.
 Trains arrive at Dublin Street Sta ton from Middletown and way sta tions at 7:5O a. m. and 400 p. m.
 ELECTRIC CARS.
 Leave Exchange Place daily at 5:37 a. ID. and every 15 minutes thereafter until 11:37 D. m.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-15
DO YOU USE GAS?

Some Facts Which Have Been Mys-
 teriously Kept in the Background.
 Everybody whose gas bills displease him-and whose does not?-will find it profitable to ponder until he thorough ly understands the significance and the lesson of the special dispatch from Chicago which We published Saturday, says the New York Times. It an- Dounced the beginning of active oper- ations there of company supplying to gas consumers small plants for economic consumption in burners equipped with ''mantles.' The great excellence of such burners is q matter of wide though not universal knowl- edge, but what comparatively few peo- pie know is the fact that the gas they are now using in these burners is made for tips constructed for light >"oduc- ton on an utterly different principle, and that they are paying high prices for gas constituents which, while the only Illuminating elements when the gas Is consumed in ordinary burners, do not increase the illumination by the minutest fraction when the only ob- feet is to heat mantle" to 1ncan- descence The machines of the Chi cago company make heating gas much like the so-called natural gas of
  of which the cost. even when manu- factured in comparati lively small Quan- titles is from 10 to 12 cents per 1000 feet.
 Ever since the mantle" burners were invented, that is, for something over ten years, the possibility of at taining the very best Illuminating re- suits from the burning in them of gas otherwise suitable only for heating purposes has been well and practical ly known in all the towns adjacent to the gas wells, but never a word has been said about it by the gas compan- ies in other places, and somehow or other even the inventors and exploit CTS of the mantle system of con- bustion have been influenced to avoid the subject as much as possible. Now that the pretty little combination has been broken we may expect to hear a good deal about the adaptation of gas to burners, and it is not beyond the limits of probability that in the near future all gas will be cheap, or at least cheaper, and that all gas burners will reveal, not stupidity. by retaining form that has outlasted its day, but intelligence, by utilizing one of the i'm portant inventions of an inventive cen tury. The old gas companies can be trusted to apply desperate brake to the wheels of progress. They will not change their plants until necessity | compels them to do so.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-15

Many of those who voted for the committee bill are glad of the throw down given the majority of the house census committee, when its bill was knocked out, and the Burleigh substi- ute reapportionment bill, which has in MT McKinley's hands, was passed by the house by the large majority of 63. While partisan politics were not introduced during the discussion, the ported by practically all of the repub- lican bosses in the house, made it's defeat black eye for them.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-15
Board of Relief,

The Board of Relief of the Town of Waterbury willMneet in Assessors room, City hall,R January 10, II, 14, IT, IS, q and 24, from ? to , and to 9 D. ln.; Saturday, January 26. from 9 to 12 a. m., ? to , and to p. m., for the purpose of hearing appeals from the doings of the Assessors and attending to duties of said office.
 JOHN J. SIEFEN.
 JOHN r. GARREN,
 I. A. SPENCER,
 Board of Relief. Waterbury, January ', 1901. ITS
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-15
Dayid City, Neb, April I, 1900.

David City; Neb, April l. 1900.
 GeneSS Pure Food Co, sLe Roy, N. Y.: Genf1eraen: 1smust say in regard to HRA1nsA that there ia nothing better or ,&6tf41ett $ sFe have used 1t for lyears. Ny j6fhg was q great coffee Nrinker. He W26 t1ken sick and the dOctor sadd co6ee was the cause of it. sna toSd IT to peA QRAIN-O. We get \ naeka6e pui di4 not like 1t at nrst. :S5u1111S FIT gsould not be without 1t: Ny brothef hAe heeA telt ever sfncG VI 1f6at eestse3t xe1xa. tElI
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-15

Flowers, 4.en me night Is done,
 Lift their heads to greet the sun; Sweetest looks md odOrs raise.
 In q silent hymn of praise. To my heart should turn away,
 From the dAfkness to the day; Lying open In the light,
 AS . flower In Gods aieht. ---E'fen the Fritinss Of Henry vaa
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-15
TUESDAY, JANUARY 15. 1901.

The ice dealers are now sending out their price lists for next season, and the prices are just the same as adopt ed last April. The season was so good for ice cutting and such large stock has been housed that people looked for the old rates which prevailed be- fore the raise last April.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-15
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 School .t Music

Instruction in Piano, Singing, Organ, Violin. Harmony, Musical Kindergar- ten, Mandolin, Banjo, Guitar, Cornet, and Sight Reading. School of Dane ing and Department. Taught by a Faculty unsurpassed for it's excellence.
 Ensemble playing free.
 Free admission to Recitals, Concerts and Lectures.
 January Fist a new class in dancing will be started.
 January % new classes In Musical Kindergarten.
 Register now for all departments. Students received daily.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-08-28
Set and Sit.

At the farmers institute at Gle mson last
Wednesday the subject of poultry was dis
cussed by MIR. o. 81. Watson. The News sno
Courier's report says "the fact was brought
out that when hen wants to sit she Is going
SET" which Is very remarkable TACT. we
know II TO be a fact that when some hens
want to sit they are going to Sit, II they nave
TO sit on limb or on the ground IN coop,
but we have never known hen to set or at
tempt to set. They will sometimes persist 10
sitting till they force you to set them 10 get
rid of them. Since this fact about hens mas mas
been brought out, we are prepared Tor the
statement that when hen wants 10 lay sne
is going to lie. :. =
Lest injustice be done to somebody, 1t is
fair to state that MIR. Watson's language ls
not quoted, and there may be some mistake
about the statement. We should be pleased
TO have our readers, especially the younger
ones who are interested In the STUDY Oh tue
English language. pay particular attentlon 10
their hens that want to sit, and see and report
to The Lantern whether they set or sit. Thls
ought to settle the question. The Lantern
will be sent free six months TO the nrst ooy OF
girl under l6 years Of age who. In letter
written by himself or herself, reports case
with satisfactory proof Of hen that wants
to sit and then changes her mind and sets
The paper will also be sent free three months
to every subsequent one who reports nke
case under the same conditions and limita'
tions before September 15th.-Chester Ian
tern.
The wheels in our head have slipped cog,
and we do not quite understand the above
but when the Court and a hen are at their
legitimate business the Court sits, and the
hen sets.
We would as soon say "progrum' as to say
"sitting hen." Even good natural man like
the editor of the Chester Lantern would be
excusable II he knocked man down with
base ball bat for using either expression.
The Lantern is right when 1t says that
man tries to do thing, instead Of "try and
do"